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tonyPick [soylentnews.org] writes:

According to Symmetry Magazine CERN has released more than 300TB of LHC data [symmetrymagazine.org] from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment:

These include more than 100 TB of data from proton collisions at 7 TeV, making up half the data collected at the LHC by the CMS detector in 2011. This release follows a previous one from November 2014, which made available around 27 TB of research data collected in 2010.

The data are available on the CERN Open Data Portal and come in two types. The primary datasets are in the same format used by the collaboration to perform research. The derived datasets, on the other hand, require a lot less computing power and can be readily analyzed by university or high school students.

CMS is also providing the simulated data generated with the same software version that should be used to analyze the primary datasets.

The CMS experiment [wikipedia.org] is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)... designed to measure the energy and momentum of photons, electrons, muons, and other products of the collisions.

This article references the CMS news article [web.cern.ch], and links to the data portal [opendata.cern.ch] and a VM image which is preloaded with analysis software [cernvm.cern.ch].

Originally spotted at HackerNews [ycombinator.com].

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