Cern paves the way for lightning-speed networks
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 at Cern in...
[July 16, 2008, 9:30]
Cern bombards LHC grid with data
News The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09, threw huge amounts of data around the distributed computing project, which uses dedicated optical-fibre networks to distribute data from Cern (the European Organization for Nuclear...
[July 3, 2009, 16:07]
Baguette 'dropped by bird' causes LHC disruption
News A piece of bread dropped on an outdoor electrical installation on Monday caused disruption to the world's largest particle accelerator, according to the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern).
[November 6, 2009, 16:22]
Grid computing to solve Big Bang queries?
News CERN, the Tier-0 centre. CERN, near Geneva, will be the largest scientific instrument on the planet and will need hugely powerful computing to process the 15PB of data that it will produce each year. They couldn't afford to do all the computing at...
[November 24, 2005, 12:55]
UK scientists express joy at LHC switch-on
News One of the most important technological advances to come out of Cern's work has been its contributions to grid computing, which involves using large numbers of loosely coupled computers over a great area to share the load of handling large amounts...
[September 10, 2008, 13:03]
Internet2 sets new speed record
News The new record used IPv4, the current system for Internet addressing, and was set by members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Geneva-based CERN. CERN and its partners have already begun building such a network; it's called...
[April 21, 2004, 10:40]
Cern's Large Hadron Collider powers up
News Shortly before 8.30am on Wednesday, scientists at Cern turned on the Large Hadron Collider for the first time. By smashing particles together at unprecedented — in man-made terms — energies, the scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear...
[September 10, 2008, 0:01]
Big Bang project sparks supercomputer plans
News As a result, researchers at CERN created Openlab, a grid computing network designed to test out the type of equipment that is likely to be standard by the middle to end of this decade when the project really gets underway.
[April 2, 2003, 7:38]
The heart of the LHC is more than science
Leader Fortunately for Cern's chief technology officer, Sverre Jarp, that risk is far smaller than anything the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will ever measure. The expertise evolved in developing its IT systems will be sorely needed in mainstream...
[September 10, 2008, 15:49]
UK scientists complete Grid foundations
News The specifications deal with the dilemma of how scientists should share vast databases of research results, such as those expected to emerge from the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN, the European nuclear research laboratory.
[July 22, 2002, 12:45]
Itanium pilot programme takes off
News Some of the early evaluators include Wells Fargo Bank and the European European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). The 64-bit Itanium chip was developed to address applications that require large amounts of memory.
[November 22, 2000, 12:25]
