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RSS cernLHC restart on track for November
News Photo credit: Cern) According to Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, the LHC could be restarted in November, after it was shut down following just nine days after it was first switched on. [05 Oct 2009]
Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
News After a year of setbacks, Cern plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider in November at a tempo that won't overtax the machinery behind the giant particle physics experiment. The collider, located deep underground on... [10 Aug 2009]
Cern pins down latest Large Hadron Collider delays to leaky hose
News The latest delays to the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are likely to have been caused by a faulty hose, according to Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. The hose vented helium into the... [03 Aug 2009]
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 The four detectors within Cern's particle accelerator - each looking for different particles and energy signatures - have built-in electronics and attached computer centres that analyse and throw away the bulk of the... [27 Jul 2009]
Leaky pipes cause more delays to Large Hadron Collider's restart
News The world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a Cern press statement. Adjacent sub-sectors will act as 'floats', while the remainder of the surrounding sectors will be... [22 Jul 2009]
Large 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]
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]
