High Throughput Computing Helps LIGO Confirm Einstein's Last Unproven Theory
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 13:30
in Astronomy & Space
A few years ago, a global team of scientists parlayed decades of research into the discovery of the Higgs boson. A humble software program called HTCondor churned away in the background, helping analyze data gathered from billions of particle collisions. Cut to 2016, and HTCondor is on to a new collision: helping scientists detect gravitational waves caused 1.3 billion years ago by a collision between two black holes 30 times larger than our sun.