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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 at Cern in... [15 Jul 2008]
The CMS Event Builder Demonstrator and Results With Ethernet and Myrinet Switch Technologies
White Paper The data acquisition system for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will require a large and high performance event building network. Several architectures and switch technologies are currently being evaluated. [10 Jul 2008]
GIOD - Globally Interconnected Object Databases
White Paper By 2005, at the startup of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the challenge of achieving the physics goals of the experiments by the analysis of data stores of several Petabytes will have to be met. Current experiments in particle physics are... [03 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 tunnel - triggering collisions at energies similar to fractions... [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 Tier-2 computing centres... [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 man-in-a-van approach may not seem like the most... [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. The LHC and its detectors are housed in huge... [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 world's... [15 Feb 2007]
Cryogenic Magnet Tests for the LHC: Process Operation Using Web-Based Tools and Facilities
White Paper For the Large Hadron Collider under construction at CERN, an essential requirement is the acceptance test of its 1706 Cryo-magnets in cryogenic conditions in a purpose-built facility at CERN. Several teams ensure the proper operation of the... [14 Sep 2006]
'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 working conditions. [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 produce each year. [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 for the world's largest computing grid. [21 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet The biggest grid working at the moment, part of the Large Hadron Collider, has over 6,000 machines in 78 countries, all working away on problems of particle physics. Grid computing. Sounds like something out of the Matrix. [05 Jan 2005]
World's biggest grid unveiled by UK scientists
News The project is part of the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) - the world's largest and first permanent grid, destined to carry out research into particle physics. UK scientists have demonstrated the world's largest grid computing project. [06 Sep 2004]
Oracle joins grid effort
News The CERN project is intended to support the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently under construction and ranked as the largest scientific instrument in the world. Oracle announced on Wednesday that it is joining a major European research project... [05 Dec 2003]
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