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RSS lhcLHC restart on track for November
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is set to be back colliding particles before the end of this year. According to Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, the LHC could be restarted in... [05 Oct 2009]
Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
News We've selected 3.5 TeV to start," Rolf Heuer, director general of Cern, said in a statement Thursday, "because it allows the LHC operators to gain experience of running the machine safely while opening up a new discovery... [10 Aug 2009]
Cancer, climate change or malaria: Donate your unused power to research
News The non-profit is a gateway to grid computing projects including Seti, the alien intelligence search project, and LHC@home, the grid-computing project to process data from the Large Hadron Collider. Chip company Intel... [05 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]
Photos: From Big Bang physics to F1 racing - how analytics is shaping the world's decisions
Photo Years of data from collisions within previous particle accelerators at Cern allow the sensors to judge what parts of the data from LHC collisions will not yield interesting or new observations, and therefore be discarded. [27 Jul 2009]
Leaky pipes cause more delays to Large Hadron Collider's restart
News The LHC experiment, which is designed to answer fundamental questions about the nature of matter, had to be halted nine days after it became fully operational last September, due to a leak of liquid helium. [22 Jul 2009]
Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
News From these centres, data is dispatched to more than 140 centres in 33 countries around the globe, where the LHC data is managed and processed. LHC computing-grid project leader Ian Bird said on Friday... [03 Jul 2009]
Photos: My seven wonders of the tech world
Photo Then there's the massive size of the atom smasher built to conduct its far-reaching experiments - the 27km-long LHC does its proton and ion-colliding antics 100 metres below the French and Swiss borders. [09 Apr 2009]
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 energies similar... [13 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. The prime aim of asset management... [20 Oct 2008]
How global computing grid could save the world
News Foster says countries could follow the joined-up approach of the LHC Grid - which draws on a range of grids including the EC-funded Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (Egee) and the Open Science Grid in the US - to build... [20 Oct 2008]
Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News The lab has partnerships with companies including HP ProCurve, Intel and Oracle, who provide the backbone of its IT infrastructure, its 8,000-server computer centre and its links to the worldwide Worldwide LHC Computing... [17 Oct 2008]
Cern CIO on the credit crunch and black holes
Comment Having joined the lab in Geneva in 1975, von Rueden has enjoyed a varied career, working on data acquisition and processing systems for the particle accelerators that preceded the LHC, before becoming head of the IT... [16 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo Even this is insufficient to store the vast amounts of the raw data produced by the LHC so its four detectors - which each look for different particles and energy signatures - have built-in electronics and smaller... [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 year, as well as... [06 Oct 2008]
