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CERN steps up to massive storage challenge
News Researchers at CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, face a truly immense storage challenge. In short, this means that CERN's scientists have an awful lot of data on their hands. This is far too large for a single datacentre," said...
[September 6, 2006, 10:50]
Cern bombards LHC grid with data
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, threw huge amounts of data...
[July 3, 2009, 16:07]
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]
CERN FIASCO Revisited -the end of the world
Talkback CERN Fiasco - the end of the world is nigh postmortem Therefore in their quest to sell newspapers they have literally conned the people with misinformation, as yesterday was no more than switching on the electrical systems and testing if protons...
[September 11, 2008, 13:09]
Cern plans gentle restart for LHC in November
News The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in November at a level it says will not overtax the machinery behind the giant particle physics experiment, which has experienced a year of...
[August 10, 2009, 11:30]
Cern celebrates 20 years of the web
News The European Centre for Nuclear Research, or Cern, on Friday celebrated 20 years since the conception of the World Wide Web. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who was working at Cern at the time, first proposed the idea of the World Wide Web in March 1989, when...
[March 13, 2009, 15:40]
Cern lab hones business tech of the future
News The Cern nuclear-physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, is helping the technology industry refine the multicore processors and fat gigabit networks destined for the datacentres of tomorrow through the Openlab initiative.
[October 20, 2008, 12:43]
Cern: Electrical fault caused LHC helium leak
News Cern has confirmed that an electrical fault was the cause of a liquid helium leak in its flagship particle accelerator. Robert Aymar, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), told ZDNet.co.uk earlier this month...
[October 17, 2008, 16:13]
Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has Cern links
Blog French authorities have arrested a man connected with Cern over suspected links to al-Qaeda. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), near Geneva, is the organisation behind the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scientific facility, a giant...
[October 9, 2009, 17:34]
Cern demos Java apps for giant 3D digital camera
News At the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, Derek Mathieson, project leader for the world's largest particle physics laboratory, Cern, shows off the Atlas detector, a six-storey-high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels.
[May 15, 2008, 12:00]
Inside Cern's atom-smasher number-cruncher
News The computer centre at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva is used to store and process data from physics research, notably for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment. The computer centre is also used to provide mail, web...
[October 6, 2008, 16:00]
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 Fiasco - the end of the world is nigh
Talkback Therefore in their quest to sell newspapers they have literally conned the people, as today was no more than switching on the electrical systems and testing if protons would travel the 17 miles long system at CERN.
[September 10, 2008, 13:53]
University computer cluster boosts Cern research
News The projects that will be researched include a cure for malaria and the international research effort into the nature of matter, spearheaded by Cern. The grid under development will have a number of purposes, including the analysis of data from the...
[May 8, 2007, 16:59]
Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has Cern links
Blog Comment It makes you think though all the same.
[October 9, 2009, 23:10]
CERN steps up to massive storage challenge
Talkback "The main reason is cost," It would be interesting to know what alternative there was if the reason was not cost. I have a feeling it would be Linux as the OS anyway, but what about the harware. I suppose any hardware but x86.
[September 6, 2006, 17:46]
CERN steps up to massive storage challenge
Talkback Petabytes on a Disk / Tape / Card http://colossalstorage.net
[September 7, 2006, 5:12]
Cern's Large Hadron Collider goes live
News Two decades' worth of planning became reality on Wednesday, as physicists turned on the Large Hadron Collider for the first time. The largest machine in the world — and arguably the biggest scientific experiment in history — the LHC is designed to...
[September 10, 2008, 13:38]
A look at the damage that halted the LHC
News On Friday, the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) released photos of damage to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Cern's flagship particle accelerator. A resistive zone developed in one of the electrical connections, creating an electrical...
[December 10, 2008, 15:55]
LHC restart pushed back again
News The flagship particle accelerator at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) is to be restarted in October as opposed to September. James Gillies, Cern's head of communications, said on Monday that an internal schedule set in February...
[June 22, 2009, 13:38]
