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Photos: World's biggest grid
Photo The library contains 600 tapes which will hold data from the CERN experiment when it is up and running. This robot hand, part of a tape library, is used by researchers to retrieve the data needed to test... [24 Nov 2005]
Physicists put huge computing grid through its paces
News The tests aim to improve the grid being built to process data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently being built at Cern in Geneva. The CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire has been exchanging... [21 Sep 2005]
Another gong for Berners-Lee
News Berners-Lee cooked up many of the elements that we now know as the world wide web while working at the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. He developed a system for people to collaborate and share... [21 Aug 2001]
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]
Massive grid goes looking for the origins of the universe
News As a result, researchers at CERN created Openlab, a grid computing network designed to test the type of equipment that is likely to be standard by the middle to end of this decade when the project really... [02 Apr 2003]
