Major Facilities
- Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), which was designed to research quark-gluon plasma. Until 2008 it was the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
- Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), it is used for the study of nanoscale materials.
- National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), the lab's most popular machine which is said to have attracted more researchers in the world than any other facility. It was involved in the work that won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, a particle accelerator that was used in three of the lab's Nobel prizes.
- Accelerator Test Facility, generates, accelerates and monitors particle beams.
- Tandem Van de Graaff, once the world's largest electrostatic accelerator.
- New York Blue Gene supercomputer, an 18 rack Blue Gene/L and a 2 rack Blue Gene/P massively parallel supercomputer that involves a cooperative effort between Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University. It is the world’s 5th fastest supercomputer and the worlds 2nd most powerful for open access research as of 2008.
Read more about this topic: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Famous quotes containing the words major and/or facilities:
“Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories—those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.”
—Russell Baker (b. 1925)
“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)