Returned from Montana (ICMRM): impressions and photos

Yesterday I returned from Montana, USA. The conference (International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy) was awesome, traveling was good and the Americans are weird; in particular their food and cars :-) .
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going to Montana: ICMRM

In a few hours, I am leaving to visit the ICMRM, a conference about physics (magnetic resonance and stuff like this) in Montana. It will be my first time in America, but a very short time: just a week.
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new system successfully tested: “Distribution of High Performance Computing Jobs among Multiple Computing Clouds”

Hello you out there!

I just started running the first serious test of the system I’ve developed during this year’s Google Summer of Code. If I wanted to put it in sensational words, the test could be called “Distribution of Particle Physics High Performance Computing Jobs among Multiple Computing Clouds”; just to get some readers :-) . During the test, there will be some time I just sit around and watch my monitor, so I decided to share my experience about the new system with you and keep record of the test progress within this blog post.
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Measuring Z boson’s mass at LEP: “This is how precise the experiment was”

How tides, lakes and trains influenced measured particle masses in the Large Electron-Positron Collider at CERN, is described in a very impressive and colorful way in a citation in this wikipedia article:
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ATLAS Software: How to run The Full Chain

During development, a system running ATLAS Software has to be tested and validated. There are some standard tests that almost don’t need any input data, stress the system and — if they run properly — are a (very) good indicator that everything is set up correctly. I talk about the so-called JobTransforms. By combining these JobTransforms, the so-called Full Chain can be run — a convenient test. In this blog post I summarize what’s behind the Full Chain and provide a shell script to easily run it.
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