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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]
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. One of the world's largest... [03 Oct 2008]
Liverpool midwives cull paper with 3G laptops
News The laptops also run Nortel's Mobile Client Accelerator (MCA) - a WAN acceleration software package - to ensure login and data entry is not too slow. The hospital is planning to give 3G-enabled laptops to 75 of its... [27 Aug 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... [15 Jul 2008]
Microsoft offers helping hand to UK start-ups
News Announcing the Startup Accelerator Programme, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the aim is to help those companies that show enormous potential but find it difficult to get started in the right way. [02 Oct 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]
IBM chief gets glimpse of what's to come
News Server accelerator chips like those from Azul Systems and Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research are a type of application processor. IBM Research recently provided its Global Technology Outlook (GTO) to... [29 Mar 2006]
Google slams brakes on Accelerator downloads
News Google has stopped allowing downloads of its Accelerator software, just days after it began offering the product. Google Web Accelerator, which was released in beta, is set up to automatically work with... [12 May 2005]
Google's new tool gives users the fear
News Google Web Accelerator, which was released in beta, is set up to automatically work with Firefox and Internet Explorer once it's been downloaded. Great, I've used Google's Web Accelerator for a couple of... [06 May 2005]
Teen who sparked US nuclear terror alert escapes prison
News McElroy had accessed 17 computers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago in June 2002, which contained both classified and non-classified atomic weapons and research data. A University of Exeter student... [02 Feb 2004]
Teen hacker billed for £21,000 damage
News The hack took place in June last year, when Exeter University student Joseph McElroy, 18, created a programme to enable him to remotely access computers at the Fermi Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. [19 Dec 2003]
EDS launches desktop service
News Called the 'Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment', the product includes guidance for how to deploy Windows XP and Office XP software as well as tools for tasks such as capturing users' data. [20 Aug 2003]
Ballmer sets date for Xbox 2
News And with Sony easing off the accelerator on the PlayStation 3, Microsoft can afford another year to try to squeeze a profit out of the money-losing Xbox, said Michael McConnell, an analyst for Pacific Crest Securities. [20 Jun 2003]
University builds 'virtual campus' with Nortel
News Among the Nortel kit in use is Nortel Networks BayStack 450 Ethernet and Passport 8600 Routing switches and Nortel Networks Alteon 2424 SSL Accelerator. The School of Engineering at the University of Porto has used... [19 May 2003]
Massive grid goes looking for the origins of the universe
News The new, more powerful particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is being built at CERN, the same Swiss laboratory where Tim Berners-Lee developed the world wide web. Grey notes that the particle... [02 Apr 2003]
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