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Cern demos Java apps for giant 3D digital camera

Staff ZDNet.com

Published: 15 May 2008 12:00 BST

At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, Derek Mathieson, project leader for the world's largest particle physics laboratory, Cern, shows off the Atlas detector, a six-storey-high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels.

Mathieson explains how the detector uses open-source Java applications to collect data and how grid computing allows the data to be processed.

Credit: CERN demos giant 3D digital camera from ZDNet.com

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