Brookhaven and the State University of New York at Stony Brook have established a new centre for data-intensive computing at Brookhaven. James Gliman, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the State University of New York, is director.
When Brookhaven’s new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider begins physics research, the large number of particles that will be produced per collision will generate a huge volume of data. Brookhaven is also one of the US national data centres for the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s LHC proton collider, which is scheduled to begin operation in 2005.
In other areas of science, Brookhaven, site of the US National Synchrotron Light Source, is becoming increasingly involved in determining the structures of proteins.
