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As one of 17 Department of Energy national labs, SLAC pushes the frontiers of human knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind. We invent the tools that make those discoveries possible and share them with scientists all over the world.

X-rays Reveal the Atomic World

Our 2-mile-long particle accelerator is the lab’s backbone. Once the scene of major discoveries in particle physics, today it generates the world’s brightest X-rays for our revolutionary X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).

More than 2,000 scientists come to SLAC each year to use LCLS and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to probe matter in atomic detail. These X-ray studies help scientists understand the fundamental workings of nature and find solutions to real-world problems.

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Lodz University of Technology (TUL) was created in 1945 and has developed into one of the biggest technical universities in Poland. Originally located in an old factory building, today covering nearly 200,000 sq. meters in over 70 separate buildings, the majority of them situated in the main University area. Almost 15,000 students are currently studying at the University.^[1] The educational and scientific tasks of the University are carried out by about 3,000 staff members.

The research group Cognitronics and Sensor Systems (headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Rückert) represents the Bielefeld University in the consortium. For over 10 years we are working on modular cluster systems based on Computer-On-Module processing nodes. Our goals are low-power computing in edge-server applications as well as high-performance computing platforms in scale-out clusters. The research focus is on the modular integration of different target platforms (x86, ARM, FPGA, GPU) with high-speed and low-latency interconnects.

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