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Intel Xeon Processors Help Capture and Analyze Massive Amounts of Scientific Data From the World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator
White Paper More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe work at the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) laboratory on ATLAS, a large-scale particle physics experiment that studies the forces that have shaped... [30 Jul 2009]
Photos: From Big Bang physics to F1 racing - how analytics is shaping the world's decisions
Photo Cern Business Intelligence is essential for physicists at Cern to pick out useful information from the 15 petabytes of data generated every time it fires up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle... [27 Jul 2009]
Photos: My seven wonders of the tech world
Photo Cern itself also houses the world's largest particle physics laboratory - probably just as well as the LHC is set to generate an estimated 15 million GB of experimental data per year once in full swing. [09 Apr 2009]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
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... [05 Nov 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.... [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 But as head of IT at Cern, Wolfgang von Rueden plays a key role in the nuclear research lab's quest to unravel the nature of the universe by colliding particles at 99 per cent the speed of light. I've always enjoyed it... [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... [07 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... [06 Oct 2008]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo Photo credit: Cern Pictured is one of the LHC's four main detectors - called Alice - which will hunt for an exotic state of matter thought to have existed shortly after the big bang. Van-mounted cameras,... [30 May 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]
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 data that it will... [24 Nov 2005]
Massive grid goes looking for the origins of the universe
News The new, more powerful particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is being built at CERN, the same Swiss laboratory where Tim Berners-Lee developed the world wide web. As a result, researchers at... [02 Apr 2003]
