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

[Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto]

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> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 07:47, Dougal Stanton <dougal at dougalstanton.net>wrote:
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>> 2008/10/3 Galchin, Vasili <vigalchin at gmail.com>:
>> > Hello,
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>> >     One of my interests based on my education is "grand challenge
>> science".
>> > Ok .. let's take the  CERN Hadrian Accelerator.
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>> >     Where do you think Haskell can fit into the CERN Hadrian effort
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>> >     Where do you think think Haskell currently is lacking and will have
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>> > be improved in order to participate in CERN Hadrian?
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>> 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? ;-)
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Man, that was almost as good as the Large Hardon
Collider<http://largehardoncollider.com/>
!!!


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>> 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).
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There is a lot of data filtering, looking for the right trigger event...

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Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
Electronic Engineer, MSc.
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