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Adventures in Antarctic Computing, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Neutrino.

IceCube--a neutrino telescope that encompasses a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice at the South Pole, collecting and processing data from 5,160 optical sensors buried a mile deep in the icecap--presents considerable challenges, from overcoming power and bandwidth limitations to simulating the complex...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 47; no. 9; pp. 56 - 62
Main Authors: Gerhardt, Lisa, Velez, Juan Carlos Diaz, Klein, Spencer R.
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Sep2014
Subjects:
Telescopes
Neutrino detectors
Scientific computing
Optical sensors
Antarctica
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