Nor did he have much luck with his plan to build the world's most powerful accelerator for nuclear research.

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You'll need at least a 500-MHz Pentium III system and one of the more powerful graphics accelerator boards to run these, however.

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Searches for dark matter are also being carried out at CERN using the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, and other laboratories.

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