GlueX Computing Effort Gets Nod from NSF

Jozef Dudek, Curtis Meyer, Matthew Shepherd, and Richard Jones are co-principal investigators on the grant.

To help improve our understanding of the universe, more than 185,000 computer owners in 202 countries have volunteered their computers' spare time to the Einstein@home project. The project splits huge amounts of data from giant telescope arrays into small chunks that home computers can analyze. This allows researchers to look for wrinkles in space known as gravitational waves. Now a Jefferson Lab-based group is taking this idea, called "distributed computing," and applying it to meet the demands of particle physics.

The Gluonic Excitations Experiment (GlueX), set to run in Jefferson Lab's Hall D after the 12 GeV Upgrade, is expected to generate huge amounts of data – about 2 Gigabytes per second. Scientists will need distributed computing to make sense of it all. But instead of ordinary computers – they’re planning to split the analysis among cluster-style supercomputers....... more

In Their Own Words with Top Junior Investigator Kent Paschke

I grew up in Yuba City, Calif., which for various reasons, had been rated among the worst places to live in the country. It wasn’t so bad for me; one of the best things that happened to me there was meeting the girl who would later become my wife, Barbara..... more

  

Ph.D. Candidate Continues to Learn at JLab

Born in the former Yugoslavia, Marija Raskovic's work on her doctoral degree at Old Dominion University and her participation at Jefferson Lab were born of her desire to pursue cutting-edge research opportunities. By the time she graduated from high school, she had her sights set on becoming an architect...... more

  

E-mail System Gets Overhauled

There wasn't a lot of love for Jefferson Lab's e-mail system on Valentine's Day.

The servers that handle the Lab's electronic missives were overburdened, severing computer users' digital link to the outside world and the office next door. But by noon the following day, a more stable and faster electronic message delivery was in service..... more

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