CERN Embraces Yandex in Science, Search
April 26, 2012
Physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have embraced Yandex to assist in an experiment including high-energy collisions of superconducting magnets.
An article published in Bloomberg Business Week, “With Yandex at CERN, Search and Science Collide,” we learn about the CERN project and Yandex’s involvement. Yandex is working on the project for free and the custom-built search engine is used by more than 700 physicists working on the experiment. The search engine provides instant results from the data and can be tailored by 600 different criteria. The article asserts:
“… About 13 percent of the computing power for Golutvin’s experiment is supplied by the Moscow-based company. Andrey Ustyuzhanin, a Yandex researcher, headed the search company’s five-person team, which created the CERN tool in three months. The software crawled tens of thousands of files spread across CERN’s servers, working at night while the scientists slept. Only a portion of CERN’s existing records have been crawled, but Ustyuzhanin wants to index all of the 20 billion or so particle collisions recorded this year—a number that exceeds the total volume of indexed Web pages.”
This pro-bono work by Yandex is good marketing as the company tries to hold its ground against Google, which now controls 26 percent of the Russian search market. The branding impact from this project is huge, because people will likely be impressed that Yandex is working on such an experiment and will want to become involved with the search vendor as well.
Andrea Hayden, April 26, 2012
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