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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]
World's biggest grid seeks secrets of the universe
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) being constructed at CERN near Geneva will be the largest scientific instrument on the planet and will need the hugely powerful computing to process the 15 Petabytes of data that it will... [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]
Fission control: CERN opts for Java backbone
News The project will eventually scale up to a network of over 2,000 servers and 5,000 clients. The move is part of a four-year upgrade to the 27km-long accelerator, 100m below the city, combining the systems which monitor... [10 Apr 2001]