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CERN Simplifies Document Handling Using The Oracle Application Server
White Papers Although best known as the birthplace of the World Wide Web, CERN is the world's leading particle physics research laboratory. Whether a physicist is located at CERN'S Geneva headquarters or at one of more than 500 institutes around the globe, he...
[July 10, 2004, 0:00]
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 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]
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]
CERN Steps Up To Massive Storage Challenge
Talkback Petabytes on a Disk / Tape / Card http://colossalstorage.net
[September 7, 2006, 5:12]
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]
First Phase Of Supercollider Grid Goes Live
News The European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) said on Monday it has launched the first phase of its ambitious computing network, designed to process the terabytes of data generated by an upcoming particle accelerator.
[September 29, 2003, 17:50]
Quad Core At The Particle Of The Month Club
Blog More specifically, I'm at CERN where Intel wants to tell a large gaggle of Emeahacks about quad-core processing. First things first - how much speed do you get from a wireless network within CERN, one of the most hyperconnected spots on the planet?
[November 14, 2006, 8:24]
Developer Of Web Enlists FrontPage To Increase Its Web-Publishing Possibilities
White Papers The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), maintains a large network of scientists dedicated to high-energy physics research. CERN developed the World Wide Web to allow its scientists to...
[August 20, 2004, 0:00]
World's Largest Supercooled Magnet Gets Going
News Designed as part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)experiment at the international high-energy physics lab CERN in Geneva, the ATLAS magnet worked at the first attempt. CERN has an important place in the history of the internet, most famously as...
[November 23, 2006, 11:45]
New Worldwide High-speed Network On The Rise
News Now the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), which created the Web as a medium for scientific exchange, is working on the Web's successor -- the DataGrid. CERN and the other partners see the Grid as a high-speed network of...
[January 17, 2001, 8:20]
Grid Computing To Solve Big Bang Queries?
News CERN, the Tier-0 centre. They couldn't afford to do all the computing at CERN so we knew we would have a big distributed computing problem of sifting the data around the world and finding it again. CERN, near Geneva, will be the largest scientific...
[November 24, 2005, 12:55]
Oracle Joins European Grid Project
News The database software company will join Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and other major corporate backers in the Openlab for DataGrid project run by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). The company said it will contribute $1.82m...
[December 5, 2003, 9:30]
World's Biggest Grid Hits 8Gbps High
News The LHC Computing Grid will be used to manage the data deluge from Cern's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The data was transferred from Cern in Geneva, Switzerland to 12 computer centres around the globe.
[February 17, 2006, 8:55]
Grid Survives Nuclear Test
News The institutions behind the grid for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of on average 600MB per second for 10 days between the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva...
[April 26, 2005, 11:15]
Web Record Falls To Japanese Team
News In contrast, last month team a comprising members of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the California Institute of Technology achieved a speed equivalent to sending a full-length DVD film in seven seconds.
[November 4, 2003, 9:15]
Sprint And Sweden Claim Internet Speed Record
News This was equal to 69,073 terabit metres per second (a product of the speed of the transmission and its distance), which exceeded the previous record set by Caltech and CERN earlier this year. Previously, the fastest recorded data transfer over the...
[June 21, 2004, 14:05]
Sir Tim
News Sir Tim came up with the idea of what he called global hypertext space while working at the European Particle Physics Laboratory at CERN in 1989. While Apple fumbled, over at CERN the then plain Berners-Lee wrote a program called WorlDwidEweb, a...
[December 31, 2003, 10:10]
W3C Celebrates Tenth Birthday
News Between the summers of 1991 and 1994, the load on the first Web server (info.cern.ch) rose steadily by a factor of 10 every year," wrote Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the CERN Web site. The body that sets standards for the Web -- the World Wide Web...
[October 15, 2004, 17:20]
Ten Years Ago: Switching On The World Wide Web
News A: I was visiting the laboratory called CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland -- a big international lab funded by European countries -- and a guy by the name of Tim Berners-Lee asked me to come see him demonstrate the application he'd just written called...
[December 10, 2001, 16:37]
