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RSS cernThe 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]
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. [07 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 holiday list: after you've... [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 Site (WHS) list. [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... [11 Jan 2008]
Testing TCP Westwood+ Over Transatlantic Links at 10 Gigabit/Second Rate
White Paper The investigation has been conducted at the CERN - IT division using the implementation of Westwood+ recently it is made available in the Linux 2.6 stack. Introduction of 10 Gigabit Routers and 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards makes of great interest the... [20 Dec 2007]
University of Tokyo Sets Land Speed Record
White Paper The challenge was to construct a globe-spanning 10 Gigabit network for researchers at the University of Tokyo and CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva, to collaborate. Japan's WIDE (Widely Integrated Distributed... [02 Dec 2007]
Antivirus Comparison
White Paper The PowerPoint presentation gives the results of an internal CERN evaluation of antivirus software, including: Norton Antivirus CE, MacAfee Virus scan, Panda Antivirus Platinum, Trend-Micro Office Scan CE. [01 Aug 2007]
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 PCs and hard drives make up... [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 is accessible to the 5,000 scientists around... [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]
ProCurve Networking partners with CERN to unlock the secrets of the universe
White Paper ProCurve and CERN CERN — the world's largest and most powerful particle physics laboratory — needed a secure, reliable network capable of handling 15 petabytes of data per year. The logical choice was ProCurve Networking by HP, and CERN has now... [12 Oct 2006]
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). The data was transferred from Cern in Geneva, Switzerland to 12 computer centres around the globe. [16 Feb 2006]
Some of the World's Brightest Physicists Entrust the Power of StorageTek Solutions to Help Protect and Manage Their Irreplaceable Data
White Paper Fermilab is the largest U.S.laboratory for research in high-energy physics and worldwide is second only to CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. In order to best maximize its resources supporting particle accelerator research and... [02 Feb 2006]
