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Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000 Intel processor cores provide the grunt to help crack the petabytes of data spewed out from Cern's cutting-edge particle accelerators, based in Geneva, Switzerland. [06 Oct 2008]
Cern IT gets new home as servers suck grid dry
News Now Cern is planning to build a new centre in France, in addition to the existing centre, just over the border from its base in Geneva, Switzerland, directly linked to a power station. The lab cracking... [06 Oct 2008]
Large Hadron Collider puts a grid on it
News It will allow 7,000 scientists in 33 countries to process the 15-petabytes of data that will be produced each year at the particle accelerator at the Cern laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland. Academics... [03 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.09.08
Round-Up Not content with building a giant atom-smashing machine that had people fearing the end of the world, some of the boffins behind the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Geneva have decided to allay those... [26 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 (LHC), being switched on in August... [15 Jul 2008]
World's finest tech sites immortalised
News CERN - Geneva, French Swiss border Cern - Geneva, French Swiss border Now both Jodrell Bank and Cern are among the technological landmarks that could be... [22 Jan 2008]
Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher
Photo 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 is accessible 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 being used to process data from the... [15 Feb 2007]
'Maiden flight' for world's biggest grid
News The data was transferred from Cern in Geneva, Switzerland to 12 computer centres around the globe. The LHC Computing Grid will be used to manage the data deluge from Cern's Large Hadron... [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. The CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire has... [21 Sep 2005]
Tim Berners Lee: inventor of the World Wide Web
News Tim Berners Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working for CERN - the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland - has been credited as one of the most influential people... [22 Aug 2002]
Another gong for Berners-Lee
News Berners-Lee cooked up many of the elements that we now know as the world wide web while working at the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. 'Father of the web' Tim Berners-Lee has received... [21 Aug 2001]
IBM joins crusade to reinvent the internet
News One of the strongholds of the grid computing project is the Geneva physics laboratory Cern, the birthplace of the world wide web. Cern is developing a particle accelerator which will... [02 Aug 2001]
Fission control: CERN opts for Java backbone
News The move is part of a four-year upgrade to the 27km-long accelerator, 100m below the city, combining the systems which monitor its superconductor and magnets. The project will eventually scale up to a network of over 2,000 servers and... [10 Apr 2001]
