\tThe 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics will be awarded on the 10th of December to the Belgian physicist Francois Englert and the British physicist Peter Higgs, for the theoretical examination of the mechanism, which helped the understanding of the origin of sub-atomic particles’ mass. The physicists became the big favorites for this prize last year, right when their theoretical work was proven by the experiments in the hadron collider in the laboratories of the CERN research centre in Switzerland. Employees of the Institute of Physics of the Faculty of Science of the Pavol Jozef \u0160af\u00e1rik University in Ko\u0161ice are currently co-partners in one of the four big experiments realized under the leadership of the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN. In parallel with the physics research of the Department of Nuclear Physics and Subnuclear Physics, there was also tested a specialized software for the distributed processing of the data from the collision of the particles in the area of particle detectors. It was the 7th Framework Programme of the EMI, which in June 2013 the European Commission rated as excellent, and 24 distinguished European and Asian research organisations and universities took part in. Its goal was to connect 4 main European grid middleware providers ARC, gLite, UNICORE, dCache. Special requirements were placed on the software, such as being able to process an extreme amount of data safely in different parts of the world. The results of the EMI project helped with a reliable operation of a international network of computer nodes (so-called computer grid). The international computer grid helped considerably with the discovery of the Higgs boson, which was acknowledged by the CERN director professor Ralf-Dieter Heuer, who reported the discovery in June 2012.<\/p>\n
\tThe new software found its use mainly in high energy physics, the early diagnosing of Alzheimer disease (projects outGRID, newGRID, LINGA, LONI a CBRAIN) and in the research and preservation of maritime life in the iMarine project. Further areas of its application are expected in bioscience, enviromental research, social studies and linguistics. Four employees of the Institute of Physics of the Faculty of Science took part in the testing of the middleware software during a period of 3 years. Ing. Jozef \u010cern\u00e1k PhD., RNDr. Marek Ko\u010dan, RNDr. Martin Savko PhD. and Ing. Eva \u010cern\u00e1kov\u00e1 also participated in the processes of the administration of the quality of the software. International co-operation in the area of software development continues even after the end of the EMI project in the MEDIA association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"