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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... [10 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... [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]
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. Scientists at Cern recently switched on the Large Hadron Collider, (LHC)... [13 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... [22 Oct 2008]
Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab
News The Cern nuclear physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland is helping the tech industry refine the multi-core processors and fat gigabit networks destined for the data centres of tomorrow through the... [17 Oct 2008]
Cern CIO on the credit crunch and black holes
Comment We will run out of steam in about two years time in the current Cern Computer Centre and are planning a new data centre to keep up with the demand. But as head of IT at Cern, Wolfgang von Rueden plays a... [16 Oct 2008]
Photos: The Cern computers cracking the Big Bang
Photo The Cern Computer Centre in Geneva, seen here, is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe. Jean Michel Jouanigot, head of network... [06 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.09.08
Round-Up Written by Cern science writer Kate McAlpine using the moniker 'Alpine Kat', the song opens up with the line: "I'm about to rock some particle physics in da club. The Round-Up has watched the YouTube... [26 Sep 2008]
New Packet Fragmentation for S-Link to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
White Paper High Speed Interconnect (HSI) systems are essential in order to transport the large amount of data generated by the detectors, to storage devices in high energy physics experiments. The integration of a new packet... [11 Sep 2008]
World's finest tech sites immortalised
News Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest particle physics laboratories. Now both Jodrell Bank and Cern are among the technological landmarks... [22 Jan 2008]
Optimising LAN Access to Grid Enabled Storage Elements
White Paper When operational, the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN will collect tens of petabytes of physics data per year. Secondly, once datasets are stored at a Tier-2, physics analysis... [12 Jan 2008]
Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher
Photo To make sense of all this information, Cern - the European centre for particle physics near Geneva which is building the collider - has put together a global grid to make sure the data is accessible to... [21 May 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... [15 Feb 2007]
'Maiden flight' for world's biggest grid
News The LHC Computing Grid will be used to manage the data deluge from Cern's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The data was transferred from Cern in Geneva, Switzerland to 12 computer centres around the globe. [16 Feb 2006]
