How Data Becomes Physics: Inside the RACF

Multimedia · 03 March 2016

OSTI ID:1242815

Ernst, Michael ^[1]; Rind, Ofer; Rajagopalan, Srini; Lauret, Jerome; Pinkenburg, Chris

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1. USDOE/OSTI

The RHIC & ATLAS Computing Facility (RACF) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory sits at the center of a global computing network. It connects more than 2,500 researchers around the world with the data generated by millions of particle collisions taking place each second at Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, a DOE Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research), and the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. Watch this video to learn how the people and computing resources of the RACF serve these scientists to turn petabytes of raw data into physics discoveries.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1242815
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION COLLIDER (RHIC)