CERN: technology to explain quantum phenomena

CERN

CERNThe European Organization for Nuclear Research, or the cathedral of science as some call it, is the largest and most advanced physical laboratory in existence. A huge underground complex that not only brings together the best scientists from different European countries, but also has amazing technology for physics research.

As you already know in other LxA articles, they use a own distribution call cents, formerly Scientific Linux. This distro is basically a CentOS distro with a few changes. In addition, they have one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.

Last year that supercomputer was expanded into the data center in charge of processing the data from the experiments carried out there in the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) or Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator with which they investigate. The LHC is a large ring of about 27 km under Swiss soil, with very powerful superconducting magnets capable of accelerating the particles through them and causing them to collide in order, through a series of sensors, to investigate matter. In fact, great things have been discovered there, like the 2013 Higgs Boson that was worth the Nobel Prize.

Specifically, they have equipped the supercomputer with AMD EPYC 2nd Gen microprocessors, the EPYC 7742. All the thousands of chips will be able to analyze the data collected by the sensors in every collision (There are 40 TB / s data transfers that must be instantly stored and analyzed.)

In addition, you will surely know that CERN has allocated 20.000 million euros of investment for the second generation of accelerators. It will be the FCC (Future Circular Collider), about 4 times greater than the current LHC, that is, about 100 km of ring and 6 times more powerful. This is intended to make impressive discoveries for the future of humanity.

Well, now CERN has supplemented all of that with a veritable arsenal of technology to explain the quantum phenomena. A boost to this fascinating physics that will bring great things to the world, some truly unimaginable with today's technology. And they want to be on the wave of the second revolution of quantum mechanics and not be left behind.

For example, among the interesting things that will be done will be to catch antimatter particles through the trap AEGIS IT. In this way, the natural entanglement of photons from the annihilation of positrons can be investigated. And this will have a direct impact on fields such as quantum computing or the energy sector ... and think that behind all these advances there is open source it's very satisfying ...


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