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RSS particleLHC restart on track for November
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is set to be back colliding particles before the end of this year. The Large Hadron Collider will be restarted shortly Photo credit: Cern) According to Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research,... [05 Oct 2009]
Stephen Wolfram
AS Profile But Wolfram should not be seen as an overnight success, he is a 50-year-old former particle physics prodigy who has spent his life trying to unlock the potential of computers. Professor Stephen Wolfram hit the headlines... [30 Sep 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 Liquid helium leaks in the world's largest particle accelerator were probably caused by a problem with a flexible hose in the liquid helium transport circuits, the organisation said in an article in its official... [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 Several hundred feet beneath the French-Swiss border lies the world's largest, most powerful particle accelerator - the Large Hadron Collider. More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe work at the CERN (the... [30 Jul 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 world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a Cern press statement. The restart of the Large Hadron Collider has been pushed back further, following the discovery of... [22 Jul 2009]
Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
News Data from all the experiments running at Cern - including analyses from the Atlas particle accelerator, which is linked to the LHC - were processed through the grid, according to Bird. The grid that will process data... [03 Jul 2009]
Photos: The top five UK supercomputing projects
Photo It helped Taylor characterise the basic physics of quantum entanglement, a bizarre phenomenon where one sub atomic particle is able to instantly influence the state of the other. Get yourself a supercomputer. [18 May 2009]
Preliminary Localization Results With an RFID Based Indoor Guiding System
White Paper A computationally efficient Bayesian localization method (particle filter) is used to process the measurements and produce an estimation of the user's position. This paper reports preliminary work with an RFID based... [13 Apr 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. Its colloquial mission - to... [09 Apr 2009]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
Photo Cern, European Organisation for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest particle physics laboratories. The lab employs 2,600 people and uses six particle accelerators and detectors to collide... [13 Nov 2008]
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News The KTN will consider how artificial neural networks can intelligently pull together evidence from different online sources and databases, and how particle swarm intelligence - inspired by the behaviour of flocks of... [05 Nov 2008]
Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption
White Paper This white paper outlines the energy-saving strategies developed by CERN openlab and used by CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, as it deploys massive new computing resources to support the most powerful... [22 Oct 2008]
Cern keeps an eye on its assets
Case Study The engineering support team is using Infor's enterprise asset management (EAM) software to keep track of items ranging from those used in the particle accelerator - such as huge magnets and cryogenic equipment - to... [20 Oct 2008]
