Results tagged “science” from O'Reilly News

Audio: Rep. Culberson on Twittering, Energy, and Science

By Timothy M. O'Brien
July 12, 2008 | Comments: 2
Audio: Rep. Culberson on Twittering, Energy, and Science
In this 24 minute interview, John Culberson backs down from the partisan call to arms he issued this week on Twitter. He discusses transparency and technology in Congress, and the efforts to clarify the rules governing which web sites a member of Congress can participate in. Culberson also talks about wind energy, nuclear energy, oil exploration, doubling the budget for the National Science Foundation, and interesting innovations in Carbon Nanotubes which could dramatically change the way we use and store energy.

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The Software Behind the Mars Phoenix Lander

By chromatic
July 9, 2008 | Comments: 23
The Software Behind the Mars Phoenix Lander
What kind of software does it take to send a 700+ pound device millions of miles away to land safely on another planet? Peter Gluck is the project software engineer for the Mars Phoenix lander mission. In this interview with O'Reilly News, he describes how rocket scientists write and manage code, and why you're not likely to see NASA's source code any time soon.

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Audio: Brian Cox Discusses the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

By Timothy M. O'Brien
June 26, 2008 | Comments: 8
Audio: Brian Cox Discusses the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
Brian Cox talks about the scientific and technical challenges as well as some of the LHC-related computing efforts. Cox makes the case for the importance of continued commitment to pure scientific research calling the LHC the Earth's "first Apollo Mission of the 21st Century". He compares life as a rock star to life as a high-energy physicist, and debunks some of the FUD surrounding the possible creation of black holes. The Large Hadron Collider will collide up to 600 million protons every second, and it will produce 2 GB of data every 10 seconds requiring a globally distributed network of petabyte-scale storage and thousands of CPUs.

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Large Hadron Collider as Massive Grid Computer

By Timothy M. O'Brien
June 26, 2008 | Comments: 0
What do you do when your scientific experiment (humanity's largest to date) produces about 2 GB every 10 seconds? Answer, you create a world-wide, distributed grid computing system with over one hundred nodes that involves Petabyte-scale storage and which measures computing resources in the MSI2K (Mega SpecINT 2000). In other words, it's a little more complex that keeping Twitter afloat under heavy load. This article explores the required infrastructure as well as some of the interesting (LGPL) open source software used to analyze high-energy physics data.

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Can Silicon Keep Pace with Moore's Law?

By James Turner
June 5, 2008 | Comments: 1
In another existence, the Christian Science Monitor (for whom I am a correspondent) has just run a story I wrote. It deals with the future of Moore's Law, and how physics is starting to become a major speed bump to...

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