[Haskell-cafe] Haskell participating in big science like CERN Hadrian...

John Van Enk vanenkj at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 10:16:14 EDT 2008


"...gigabytes of data per second that they end up keeping, out of the
petabytes that are produced in the first place..."

Sounds like a good application for lazy evaluation! (Actually, they may have
to read over it all to make sure they can throw it away...)

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Dougal Stanton <dougal at dougalstanton.net>wrote:

> 2008/10/3 Galchin, Vasili <vigalchin at gmail.com>:
> > Hello,
> >
> >     One of my interests based on my education is "grand challenge
> science".
> > Ok .. let's take the  CERN Hadrian Accelerator.
> >
> >     Where do you think Haskell can fit into the CERN Hadrian effort
> > currently?
> >
> >     Where do you think think Haskell currently is lacking and will have
> to
> > be improved in order to participate in CERN Hadrian?
>
> Is that the experiment where Picts are accelerated to just short of
> the speed of light in order to smash through to the Roman Empire? ;-)
>
> I don't know what the main computational challenges are to the LHC
> researchers. The stuff in the press has mostly been about
> infrastructure --- how to store the gigabytes of data per second that
> they end up keeping, out of the petabytes that are produced in the
> first place (or something).
>
> Cheers,
>
> D
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/jve
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