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Photo Scientists at Cern recently switched on the Large Hadron Collider, (LHC) which accelerates sub-atomic particles to 99 per cent the speed of light along a 27km circular tunnel - triggering collisions at energies similar... [13 Nov 2008]
Artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, BT's tunnels and Apple's patents
News Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab Somewhere else that scientists have been cooking up cutting edge technology is the Swiss labs of nuclear research laboratory Cern, home of the "Big Bang" Large... [05 Nov 2008]
Apple patents, touchscreens, virtual worlds and Cern
Photo silicon.com's month in pictures kicked off with a mobile flavour. With so many touchscreen phones hitting the market we decided a photo round-up of five of the best was in order. Pictured here is the iPhone-esque Samsung Omnia. [04 Nov 2008]
An Integrated Approach for Extraction of Objects From XML and Transformation to Heterogeneous Object Oriented Databases
White Paper CERN's (European Organization for Nuclear Research) WISDOM project uses XML for the replication of data between different data repositories in a heterogeneous operating system environment. For exchanging data from... [04 Nov 2008]
Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption
White Paper This white paper outlines the energy-saving strategies developed by CERN openlab and used by CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, as it deploys massive new computing resources to support the... [22 Oct 2008]
Cern keeps an eye on its assets
Case Study Speaking at Infor's user conference in Las Vegas, engineering process support manager at Cern, David Widegren, said: "It's very important we have a single place to store everything. Further complicating matters, as... [20 Oct 2008]
How global computing grid could save the world
News It's a vision that has been set out by "Big Bang" lab Cern, where a grid of more than 100,000 processors will crunch through the 15 petabytes of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider each year. David Foster, network... [20 Oct 2008]
Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News The Cern nuclear physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is helping the tech industry refine the multi-core processors and fat gigabit networks destined for the data centres of tomorrow through the openlab initiative. [17 Oct 2008]
Cern CIO on the credit crunch and black holes
Comment We will run out of steam in about two years time in the current Cern Computer Centre and are planning a new data centre to keep up with the demand. But as head of IT at Cern, Wolfgang von Rueden plays a... [16 Oct 2008]
Sverre Jarp
AS Profile As chief technology officer at Cern he plays a key role at the lab behind the 'Big Bang' experiment to collide protons at 99 per cent the speed of light in order to learn the secrets of matter - the launch of which... [07 Oct 2008]
Data Acquisition Software for CMS HCAL Testbeams
White Paper This paper presents the design and performance of the DAQ software used for the summer 2002 HCAL testbeam at CERN. Although CMS will not start operation for several years, many subdetector groups have active testbeam... [06 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The Cern Computer Centre in Geneva, seen here, is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe. A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000 Intel processor... [06 Oct 2008]
Cern IT gets new home as servers suck grid dry
News The lab cracking data from the Cern Big Bang experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. It's a move that's been prompted by the energy demands of the computer centre at... [06 Oct 2008]
Large Hadron Collider puts a grid on it
News It will allow 7,000 scientists in 33 countries to process the 15-petabytes of data that will be produced each year at the particle accelerator at the Cern laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland. Academics from across the... [03 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.09.08
Round-Up Sir Tim was particularly concerned about the rumours circulating about the possible effect of turning on the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland. Tim Berners-Lee is a worried man. How so? After all he was... [19 Sep 2008]
