High‐energy physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.2915657
Particle physicists have long been conspicuous consumers of computer time. Today’s complex experiments generate prodigious quantities of raw data that require hours of cpu time to be reduced to a form comprehensible to human colleagues. As figure 1 shows, a multitude of computer cathode‐ray screens often dominates the control room of a modern detector. The practicing high‐energy experimentalist inevitably acquires an office cluttered with tapes and computer printouts, confering on the owner the image of a computer “hacker.”
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Michael Creutz. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.
