Nimbus and Cloud Computing Meet STAR Production Demands
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 20:42
in Astronomy & Space
The advantages of cloud computing were dramatically illustrated last week by researchers working on the STAR nuclear physics experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider. New simulation results were needed for presentation at the Quark Matter physics conference; but all the computational resources were either committed to other tasks or did not support the environment needed for STAR computations.