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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... [03 Jul 2009]
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... [25 Jun 2009]
Photos: My seven wonders of the tech world
Photo The Large Hadron Collider: The ultimate experiment For sheer breathtaking scale the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator at the European Centre for Nuclear... [09 Apr 2009]
The future of climate change is in Linux's hands
Case Study According to Budich, the contribution of Géant2 - which is also used by scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider - cannot be overstated. A scientific project that will help govern how the European... [08 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... [13 Nov 2008]
Artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, BT's tunnels and Apple's patents
News 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 Hadron Collider experiment. There has been... [05 Nov 2008]
Cern keeps an eye on its assets
Case Study As one of the largest-scale scientific projects ever undertaken, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has millions of material assets - worth around $4.6bn in total - that need to be tracked. Tech Hotspots:... [20 Oct 2008]
How global computing grid could save the world
News It's a vision that has been set out by "Big Bang" lab Cern, where a grid of more than 100,000 processors will crunch through the 15 petabytes of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider each year. A... [20 Oct 2008]
Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News The project sees the IT department at the lab behind the "Big Bang" Large Hadron Collider push cutting edge kit to breaking point to perfect it for its own use, and the consumer and business markets.... [17 Oct 2008]
Cern CIO on the credit crunch and black holes
Comment Von Rueden and his team provide the computing backbone that supports the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator's hunt for the elusive Higgs Boson - dubbed 'the God particle', invisible 'dark'... [16 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo About half of these cores will be used to deal with data from the 27km-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will generate about 15 petabytes of data by colliding protons with protons. The Cern... [06 Oct 2008]
Cern IT gets new home as servers suck grid dry
News A large part of the existing computer centre in Geneva is devoted to processing and storing the 15 petabytes of data that will be produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator each... [06 Oct 2008]
Large Hadron Collider puts a grid on it
News The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of 3... [03 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.09.08
Round-Up Sir Tim was particularly concerned about the rumours circulating about the possible effect of turning on the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland. Tim Berners-Lee is a worried man. How so? After... [19 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... [15 Jul 2008]
