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RSS CernAn Embedded Epics Controller Based on Ethernet/Serial Box
White Paper The SSRF (Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility) control system takes the Ethernet as backbone. All kinds of serial devices such as vacuum pumps are connected to Linux IOCs via a kind of Ethernet/serial box made by Moxa company. [11 Sep 2008]
Ethernet Networks for the ATLAS Data Collection System: Emulation and Testing
White Paper The traffic generation software is able to accommodate many traffic distributions with the ultimate goal of generating traffic that resembles the data collection system of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. [11 Sep 2008]
Common Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces for HLT and L1-Trigger Links of LHCb
White Paper The LHCb experiment has standardized on Gigabit Ethernet (GBE) and the Internet Protocol (IPv4) for the transport of trigger data streams between L1 buffers and a switch-based readout network. The High Level Trigger (HLT) operates at low... [11 Sep 2008]
New Packet Fragmentation for S-Link to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
White Paper High Speed Interconnect (HSI) systems are essential in order to transport the large amount of data generated by the detectors, to storage devices in high energy physics experiments. The integration of a new packet fragmentation mechanism... [11 Sep 2008]
EPICS CA Gateway Employment in the BEPCII Network
White Paper The EPICS Process Variable Gateway has become a stable, high-performance application that provides access to process variables while minimizing the impact on critical Input-Output Controllers (IOCs) and implementing additional access... [04 Aug 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 (LHC), being switched on in August... [15 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: The pyramids versus Macclesfield
Comment Along with Cern, both these technological landmarks could end up on Unesco's World Heritage Site (WHS) list - beside the tombs of the pharaohs and the masterpiece of Agra. A couple of new destinations to add to your... [23 Jan 2008]
World's finest tech sites immortalised
News CERN - Geneva, French Swiss border Now both Jodrell Bank and Cern are among the technological landmarks that could be immortalised alongside the pyramids of Egypt and Taj Mahal on Unesco's World Heritage... [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 hundred Tier-1 and... [12 Jan 2008]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo Photo credit: Cern A man-in-a-van approach may not seem like the most tech-savvy solution but the images and data that end up on numerous navigation devices are gathered by Tele Atlas' vans. Van-mounted cameras, tablet... [30 May 2007]
Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher
Photo Photo credit: Cern To make sense of all this information, Cern - the European centre for particle physics near Geneva which is building the collider - has put together a global grid to make sure the data... [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 being used to process data from the... [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). The data was transferred from Cern in Geneva, Switzerland to 12 computer centres around the globe. [16 Feb 2006]
Leader: Open systems, open minds
Leader Physicists will be the first to benefit from the world's biggest computing grid, being built to help process the vast amounts of data which will flow from CERN's particle smashing experiments. It's rare that the public... [24 Nov 2005]
Photos: World's biggest grid
Photo The library contains 600 tapes which will hold data from the CERN experiment when it is up and running. John Gordon deputy director of the CCLRC e-Science Centre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory checks that the grid... [24 Nov 2005]
