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Technology for Nonprofits & Communities is Madison Nonprofit Day's first effort to present a full schedule of technology and technology related topics that are accessible to and enhance both the nonprofits and the community. The workshops hopefully appeal to a wide range of individuals from nonprofit staff and volunteers to social entrepreneurs, accidental techies, students, and the community. Madison Nonprofit Day joined with Sector67 to create a community friendly, technology education day. The workshops are all ages, so bring your children and teens along.

Date

August 11, 2011 - 1:00pm - 7:00pm

Location

Find out how clusters of Linux computers are being used together with the Large Hadron Collider to find the elusive Higgs boson particle!

Physicists at the University of Wisconsin have joined the largest science project ever: the quest to find the Higgs boson--one of the last unseen elementary particles. Finally, protons are running marathons at nearly the speed of light around the Large Hadron Collider, and every collision generates immense amounts of data. This data is stored and analyzed on a world-wide grid of Linux clusters, and Wisconsin's is one of the busiest.

Will Maier will introduce the project and some of the physics behind it before describing in detail how the University of Wisconsin uses Linux to store and analyze more than 500 TB of LHC data and run 30,000 hours of computations each day.

Date

March 5, 2011 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Location