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RSS CernLarge Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
News The grid that will process data from the Large Hadron Collider has undergone stress testing, with Cern and other organisations trying to gauge its limits. The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09,... [03 Jul 2009]
Testing Ethernet Networks for the ATLAS Data Collection System
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. [25 Jun 2009]
Kay Brown
CIO Profile Brown has worked in local government since 1991, before which she held several IT management positions in the private sector for BOC, Cern, Alexander Stenhouse and Honeywell Bull. As head of IT for South Lanarkshire... [03 Jun 2009]
Photos: My seven wonders of the tech world
Photo For sheer breathtaking scale the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva must loom large on any technology fan's radar. Cern itself... [09 Apr 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo Image credit: Cern March kicked off with a photographic tour through Microsoft's vision of the workplace of the future. According to the software giant, a worker in the future will find that nearly everything in the... [07 Apr 2009]
Photos: Happy Birthday Sir Tim's world wide web
Photo While working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern), former physicist - and now Sir - Tim Berners-Lee produced a proposal that was to lay the foundations of the modern day internet. [12 Mar 2009]
2008: The year in numbers
News The number of petabytes of data the flow through the network supporting Cern $1bn The value Steve Jobs reckons the iPhone App store will achieve Five million The estimated number of iPhone 3Gs sold in the third quarter... [02 Jan 2009]
The Yearly Round-Up: 2008
Round-Up Top of the Round-Up's list of Christmas crackers is Cern, which gets a big thank you from the planet, largely for not causing the end of the world (phew) by sucking us all into a black hole, as predicted by some. [19 Dec 2008]
OPC Evolution Toward UNIX (From Windows to World Wide Domination?)
White Paper OLE for Process Control (OPC) is a middleware solution for integration problems found in an industrial environment. Typically used for connecting devices to higher level processes such as SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition)... [04 Dec 2008]
The Cesar Project - Using J2EE for Accelerator Controls
White Paper The CESAR project team used the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) to build a controls system for the SPS experimental areas at CERN. This paper presents the CESAR architecture and the J2EE platform. It explains the J2EE... [03 Dec 2008]
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 "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]
