Tag: Bockelman Research Group

  • Chasing ghost particles with armies of computers

    Scientists with the IceCube neutrino detection project, located on the South Pole and run by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, announced in July that they found the origin point of a cosmic neutrino in an energy-spewing black hole 4 billion light years from Earth. Scientists say the discovery will provide a fundamental new tool for seeing the unseeable in the universe.

  • HTCondor powers Marshfield Clinic project on disease genetics

    Using the equivalent of hundreds of years of computing time on HTCondor, a Marshfield Clinic scientist is compiling a database that will map genetic connections to more than 8,000 human diseases.

  • Morgridge, UW scientists played role in Nobel-winning gravitational wave discovery

    Tuesday’s announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to researchers Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kip Thorne and Barry Barish of the California Institute of Technology, bears Morgridge Institute for Research and University of Wisconsin System connections.

  • High Throughput Computing helps LIGO confirm Einstein’s last unproven theory

    A few years ago, a global team of scientists parlayed decades of research into the discovery of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle considered a building block of the universe. A humble software program called HTCondor churned away in the background, helping analyze data gathered from billions of particle collisions.

  • UW expands effort to serve advanced computing needs in research

    If you’re conducting quantitative research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, regardless of discipline, chances are there is a “next level” of discovery that could be unlocked through advanced computing.