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Monday, April 25 2:30 Particle Astrophysics Seminar - Curia II Speaker: J. Beatty, Ohio State University Title: Tuning into Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos 3:30 DIRECTOR'S COFFEE BREAK - 2nd Flr X-Over 4:00 All Experimenters' Meeting Special Topic: Electrostatic Separator R&D - Curia II
Tuesday, April 26 |
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Monday, April 26 French Quarter Gumbo French Dip w/ Horseradish Cream Sauce $4.75 Honey Garlic Pork Chop $3.75 BBQ Roasted Quartered Chicken $3.75 Italian Panini with Provolone $4.75 Pizza $2.75 Sweet n' Sour Chicken with an Egg Roll $4.75 The Wilson Hall Cafe now accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover and American Express at Cash Register #1.
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Fermilab Achieves Record in Grid Computing for Science | ||
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Today, in a milestone for scientific computing, researchers at Fermilab announced that the laboratory had sustained a continuous data flow averaging 50 megabytes per second (MB/s) for 25 days from CERN in Geneva, Switzerland to the tape storage facility at Fermilab. Fermilab and six other major global computing centers sustained a continuous data flow averaging 600 MB/s from CERN to tape and disk storage at locations around the world. The total amount of data transmitted in 10 days-500 terabytes-would take about 250 years to download using a typical 512 kilobit per second household broadband connection.
The achievements represented a successful exercise designed to test the global grid computing infrastructure that will be used by thousands of scientists worldwide working on experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, currently being built at CERN to study the fundamental properties of subatomic particles and forces.
"This service challenge is a key step on the way to managing the torrents of data anticipated from the LHC," said Jamie Shiers, coordinator of the service challenges at CERN. "When the LHC starts operating in 2007, it will be the most data-intensive physics instrument on the planet, producing more than 1500 MB/s of data continuously for over a decade."
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April 20- April 22 - During this 48 hour period operations established two stores that provided the experiments with approximately 31 hours and 43 minutes of luminosity - Pbar septa interrupts stacking - NuMI conducts target scan
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Retired - Jeff Kallenbach, Computing Division, 4/25/05 - Brent Evanger, Accelerator Division, 3/31/05 |
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From Stanford Daily, April 20, 2005 SLAC restarts accelerator By Will Oremus The B-mesons are back in business.
The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s B-Factory experiment —
which produces B-mesons to probe the mystery of how matter won out
over anti-matter in the moments following the Big Bang —
is up and running again, five months after it was shut down due to safety
concerns.
From Science Magazine, April 19, 2005 |
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Let's Try Again: Plant A Tree for Earth Day Today | ||
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Roads and Grounds will hold Fermilab's Earth Day tree-planting activities for employees and their families today (Monday, April 25). The event was rained out on Friday.
Please bring a shovel, and wear boots and gloves (and this year, bring your own lunch, too). The area to be planted this year is directly west of Warehouse II. Planting begins at 11:30 a.m., and make sure you read today's Safety Tip on protecting your hands. If there are any questions about the weather this morning, call Roads and Grounds at x3303.
And remember: Earth Day tree-planting and DASTOW are separate events for 2005, taking place on different dates. This year, DASTOW will take place on June 23, and more information about the day's schedule will be coming soon.
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Digital Safety Given the amount of work we do with our hands every day, it's no surprise they get hurt so often. Injuries can range from minor cuts to amputations. A recent study found that metal items, such as nails,
Hand injuries can also occur from falls or material handling. In the past quarter Fermilab had 22 work-related injuries, seven of which affected the hand. The most severe of these resulted from a material handling incident in which a worker moved a heavy egg-shaped glass table top by rolling it on its edge. As it began to fall, he attempted to catch the top with his left hand. The top struck his hand lacerating and fracturing the third and fourth fingers. To save time, the worker chose to move the table alone, in spite of a standing requirement to use two or more people. To avoid hand injuries you should review the process before you begin work. How could your hands get hurt? Make sure that machine guards are in place. Use lock & tag procedures before un-jamming equipment. If you need to put your hands where you can't see them, check for hidden hazards with an inspection mirror. Consider wearing the most protective gloves that are compatible with the process. However, don't forget to balance glove use against the increased added risk of entanglement (e.g., rotating tools).
Have a great day and let's work safely all week!
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Upcoming Classes April 28 - Excel 2000 Intro May 3 - 5: DSP Theory and Implementation May 11 - Access 2000 Intro more information
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