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Science powerhouses unite to help search for gravitational waves
Scientists from Caltech, Syracuse University and Abilene Christian University worked with computing experts at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to develop and test new methods for transmitting and analyzing data with an eye towards Advanced LIGO's future operations.
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Advanced LIGO will take in huge volumes of data that must be analyzed to determine their meaning. Researchers estimated that ALIGO would generate more than 1 petabyte of data a year, the equivalent of 13.3 years of high-definition video.
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LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a large-scale physics experiment that aims to directly detect gravitational waves. Here is the LIGO Livingston Observatory in Louisiana.
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