'the machine' series, no. 9

CERN - "the machine" series -- Corresponding journal entry
#1: The maintenance hatch
#2: The ATLAS detector outer shell - triptych
#3: The proton accelerator tube
#4: The ATLAS cavern
#5: Portrait of a physicist: Mauro Donega
#6: Portrait of a physicist: Superconductive electromagnetism
#7: Portrait of a physicist: Explaining the ATLAS
#8: The GRID: Massive computing power
#9: The GRID: Yet more to come

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The final photo from the series, symbolically pointing into the future of CERN.

You saw on photo no. 8 one of the dozens of completed rows of computers? You read the comment, describing the massive computer power now available? Well, that's just the beginning. There are also dozens of empty server racks like this one, waiting to be filled up with more computers, to enable unprecedented computing power that will help the scientist tap into the secrets of the Universe, explored at the miraculous Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

There. I'm done. Thank you all for coping with my geekyness this week, and my apologies to all my watchers who couldn't care less about this topic. But this series was very important to me, and I'm very proud I could've been there, to see all this with my own two eyes.