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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]
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 hose vented helium into the... [03 Aug 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 IT gets new home as servers suck grid dry
News The lab cracking data from the Cern Big Bang experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. It's a move that's been prompted by the energy demands of the computer centre at... [06 Oct 2008]
Cern keeps an eye on its assets
Case Study Speaking at Infor's user conference in Las Vegas, engineering process support manager at Cern, David Widegren, said: "It's very important we have a single place to store everything. Further complicating matters, as... [20 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. A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000 Intel processor... [06 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 openlab initiative. [17 Oct 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 switched on in August... [15 Jul 2008]
Fission control: CERN opts for Java backbone
News The move is part of a four-year upgrade to the 27km-long accelerator, 100m below the city, combining the systems which monitor its superconductor and magnets. The project will eventually scale up to a network of over 2,000 servers and... [10 Apr 2001]
Apple patents, touchscreens, virtual worlds and Cern
Photo silicon.com's month in pictures kicked off with a mobile flavour. With so many touchscreen phones hitting the market we decided a photo round-up of five of the best was in order. Pictured here is the iPhone-esque Samsung Omnia. [04 Nov 2008]
Sverre Jarp
AS Profile As chief technology officer at Cern he plays a key role at the lab behind the 'Big Bang' experiment to collide protons at 99 per cent the speed of light in order to learn the secrets of matter - the launch of which... [07 Oct 2008]
The Cesar Project - Using J2EE for Accelerator Controls
White Paper The CESAR project team used the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) to build a controls system for the SPS experimental areas at CERN. This paper presents the CESAR architecture and the J2EE platform. It explains the J2EE... [03 Dec 2008]
Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
News The grid that will process data from the Large Hadron Collider has undergone stress testing, with Cern and other organisations trying to gauge its limits. The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09,... [03 Jul 2009]
Photos: Happy Birthday Sir Tim's world wide web
Photo While working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern), former physicist - and now Sir - Tim Berners-Lee produced a proposal that was to lay the foundations of the modern day internet. [12 Mar 2009]
How global computing grid could save the world
News It's a vision that has been set out by "Big Bang" lab Cern, where a grid of more than 100,000 processors will crunch through the 15 petabytes of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider each year. David Foster, network... [20 Oct 2008]
