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Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News The project sees the IT department at the lab behind the "Big Bang" Large Hadron Collider push cutting edge kit to breaking point to perfect it for its own use, and the consumer and business markets.... [17 Oct 2008]
Cern CIO on the credit crunch and black holes
Comment Von Rueden and his team provide the computing backbone that supports the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator's hunt for the elusive Higgs Boson - dubbed 'the God particle', invisible 'dark'... [16 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo About half of these cores will be used to deal with data from the 27km-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will generate about 15 petabytes of data by colliding protons with protons. The Cern... [06 Oct 2008]
Cern IT gets new home as servers suck grid dry
News A large part of the existing computer centre in Geneva is devoted to processing and storing the 15 petabytes of data that will be produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator each... [06 Oct 2008]
Large Hadron Collider puts a grid on it
News The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of 3... [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... [19 Sep 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fibre optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider... [15 Jul 2008]
World's finest tech sites immortalised
News In May it will switch on a new particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider, (LHC) which will accelerate sub-atomic particles to 99 per cent the speed of light along a 27km circular... [22 Jan 2008]
Optimising LAN Access to Grid Enabled Storage Elements
White Paper When operational, the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN will collect tens of petabytes of physics data per year. The worldwide LHC computing grid (WLCG) will distribute this data to over two... [12 Jan 2008]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo The world's most powerful atom smasher - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - will be turned on this November and is expected to produce roughly 15 million gigabytes of experimental data every year. A... [30 May 2007]
Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher
Photo When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is switched on this November it will be the world's most powerful particle accelerator, churning out roughly 15 million gigabytes of experimental data every year. To... [21 May 2007]
Grid boosts efforts to fight malaria
News The main bulk of the UK's contribution came from GridPP - a particle physics grid, built as part of another international computing project called the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid - which is... [15 Feb 2007]
'Maiden flight' for world's biggest grid
News The LHC Computing Grid will be used to manage the data deluge from Cern's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). UK physicists have taken part in the latest test of an international scientific computing grid under... [16 Feb 2006]
World's biggest grid seeks secrets of the universe
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) being constructed at CERN near Geneva will be the largest scientific instrument on the planet and will need the hugely powerful computing to process the 15 Petabytes of... [24 Nov 2005]
Physicists put huge computing grid through its paces
News The tests aim to improve the grid being built to process data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently being built at Cern in Geneva. UK particle physicists have started the next phase of testing... [21 Sep 2005]
