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11 July 2012

The higgs, the history, and the grid

Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider have identified a new particle that is consistent with the Higgs boson. Confidence levels are as high as 5.0 sigma. This means the probability of the background alone fluctuating up by this amount or more is about one in three million. The director general of CERN, Rolf Heuer, said this global success was only made possible because of the experiments, infrastructure, and grid computing.

Catherine Gater
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Getting value from a trillion electron haystack

For the first time, researchers from Berkeley have managed to query 32 terabytes of a trillion particle dataset in three seconds, with new techniques.

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Designing better antibiotics

Diseases caused by fungi are deadly to people with weak immune systems. Today's antibiotics are too toxic. Researchers use the grid to find antibiotics that are less harmful.

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Higgs–like particle spotted at CERN – have you seen it?
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Happy Summer Holidays!

As we’re now in mid-July, many people are either taking or will take a summer break. The team here at iSGTW is no exception. We’re taking a short two-week break for the rest of July. The next issue of iSGTW will be published 1 August 2012.

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