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EGI congratulates the Virgo collaboration for their contribution to the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for the observation of gravitational waves.
The Virgo detector is located in Italy, within the site of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) and was designed to discover gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime – predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The first detection was announced by the Virgo collaboration and the LIGO collaboration in February 2016. The discovery opened a new window of looking at the universe.
Virgo is a European collaboration of scientific institutions from six countries: Italy, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary and Spain.
Virgo relies on EGI High-Throughput Compute resources provided by the following data centres:
- CYFRONET-LCG2 (Poland)
- GRISU-UNINA (Italy)
- IN2P3-CC (France)
- INFN-FERRARA (Italy)
- INFN-NAPOLI (Italy)
- INFN-PADOVA (Italy)
- INFN-PERUGIA (Italy)
- INFN-PISA (Italy)
- INFN-T1 (Italy)
- INFN-TRIESTE (Italy)
- Kharkov-KIPT-LCG2 (Ukraine)
- NIKHEF (Netherlands)
- RECAS-NAPOLI (Italy)
- SARA-MATRIX (Netherlands)
- UNINA-EGEE (Italy)
Read more information on the VIRGO collaboration and the award.
