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Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
News The physicists will inject and capture high-energy beams running in each direction on the circular collider's 17 mile circumference, log data over a number of weeks, and simply get themselves up to speed on the systems. [10 Aug 2009]
Photos: From Big Bang physics to F1 racing - how analytics is shaping the world's decisions
Photo The energies generated when particles collide within the LHC are equivalent to those fractions of a second after the Big Bang, and physicists hope these conditions will offer a glimpse at the Higgs Boson, a particle... [27 Jul 2009]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo Once the data arrives at the centre it is immediately stored and reprocessed before being made available to 7,000 physicists in 33 countries via the LHC grid. Even this is insufficient to store the vast amounts of the... [06 Oct 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News RAL and other "tier one" sites across the world in the LCG will shape the mass of data from the LHC into chunks that can be usefully analysed by physicists and pass it on to hundreds of "tier two" universities and... [15 Jul 2008]
Optimising LAN Access to Grid Enabled Storage Elements
White Paper The worldwide LHC computing grid (WLCG) will distribute this data to over two hundred Tier-1 and Tier-2 computing centres, enabling particle physicists around the globe to access the data for analysis. [12 Jan 2008]
Will future networks be faster than light-speed?
News But two German physicists claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using the strange phenomenon known as "quantum tunnelling". Gunter Nimtz, one of the physicists from the University of... [17 Aug 2007]
Wireless power has techies beaming
News The MIT physicists devised the WiTricity system last year and this is the first time a working example has been unveiled. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lit a 60 watt light bulb from a power... [08 Jun 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: What's on my Christmas list
Comment My silicon.com colleague Gemma Simpson recently wrote an article about physicists investigating the potential to charge up devices such as phones wirelessly. Dear Santa, I've been really good all this year and after... [14 Dec 2006]
No more gadget chargers
News Physicists at MIT have devised a system that could supply power to devices such as laptops, mobiles and MP3 players without wiring up to the mains. Electronic gadgets could soon automatically charge up when their owners... [17 Nov 2006]
Minority Report: The death of the iPod
Comment What goes up must come down" is an axiom held dear by both gravitational physicists and product managers. Is the iPod on the decline and soon to become a 'has been'? Seb Janacek examines the fate of Apple's ubiquitous... [03 Nov 2006]
Grid seeks bird flu cure
News The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (Pparc) said on Thursday that it put up a grid computing project, which was originally designed for particle physicists to perform data searches, for an international... [05 May 2006]
Scientists go back to school
News The 2020 Science Group - a think tank of 34 of the world's leading biologists, mathematicians, physicists and computer science academics - this week released a report detailing the findings of a three-day brainstorming... [23 Mar 2006]
'Maiden flight' for world's biggest grid
News UK physicists have taken part in the latest test of an international scientific computing grid under working conditions. During the week-long challenge, the LHC Computing Grid sustained transfer rates of a gigabyte per... [16 Feb 2006]
Leader: Open systems, open minds
Leader Physicists will be the first to benefit from the world's biggest computing grid, being built to help process the vast amounts of data which will flow from CERN's particle smashing experiments. It's rare that the public... [24 Nov 2005]
Physicists put huge computing grid through its paces
News UK particle physicists have started the next phase of testing for the world's largest computing grid. During this period, particle physicists working on the experiment will test the grid by sending trial... [21 Sep 2005]
