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RSS nuclearLHC restart on track for November
News 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. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)... [05 Oct 2009]
Building Scale for the Utility Company's Future
White Paper Concerns about the aging delivery infrastructure, climate change, and energy security are driving investments in new and cleaner sources of energy - renewables, nuclear, demand response, and energy efficiency. [16 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News Meanwhile, low water levels in rivers and reservoirs forced the shut down of nuclear reactors in France a few years ago. At a water conference next week, IBM and Intel will be forming a working group to study how... [08 Sep 2009]
Photos: Restoring one of the world's oldest computers
Photo Photo credit: Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Work began this week on restoring what will be the world's oldest working stored-program electronic computer. Volunteers at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) at... [04 Sep 2009]
Cannizzaro Hospital Improves Service With Filmless Radiology System Built on Reliable Data Infrastructure
White Paper It needed to Rationalize and optimize filing and transfer of diagnostic images from digital radiographic equipment including Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT) scans, Magnetic Nuclear Resonance scans (MNRs),... [31 Aug 2009]
Photos: Artificial eyes and airport scanners - what's hot in R&D
Photo The Compact Gamma Camera for high-resolution imaging from Brookhaven National Laboratory and Hybridyne Imaging Technologies is a nuclear medical probe to localise cancerous tissue in the prostate gland. [21 Aug 2009]
Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
News The experiment that Cern - European Organisation for Nuclear Research - has in mind are nothing short of grandly ambitious. After a year of setbacks, Cern plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider in November at a tempo... [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 LHC experiment is designed to... [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 Today analytics has broken free of the corporation and is shaping everything from nuclear physics to Formula One racing. The nuclear research laboratory on the Swiss-French border is aiming to find out... [27 Jul 2009]
Constellation Energy Cuts Costs and Increases Performance With Enhanced E-Mail Solution
White Paper Based in Baltimore, Maryland, the company owns a diversified fleet of generating units located throughout the United States, and is among the leaders pursuing the development of new nuclear plants in the United States. [25 Jul 2009]
Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
News The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09, threw huge amounts of data around the distributed computing project, which uses dedicated optical-fibre networks to distribute data from Cern (the European Organization... [03 Jul 2009]
Westinghouse Electric Fuels Highly Available Cluster With HP Scalable NAS File Serving Software
White Paper The company wanted to promote the continued growth of the Westinghouse nuclear fuel business by improving the performance, availability and scalability of the file-serving system underlying the data center's critical... [21 Jun 2009]
Nuclear authority picks CSC for £31m deals
News CSC has landed six new deals worth £31m with the Civil Nuclear Police Authority (CNPA) and five UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) companies. The contracts will see the outsourcer provide the six organisations with a... [12 Jun 2009]
Southern Company Reduces Cost, Time, and Risk by Relying on Informatica Data Integration Platform for Major Data Migration
White Paper The company wanted to facilitate and accelerate the migration of legacy mainframe data from three nuclear power plants to create an integrated, standardized multi-plant workflow and document management solution that... [12 Jun 2009]
