Grid project hunts for bird flu cure
News The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) said on Thursday that it put up a grid computing project, which was originally designed for particle physicists to perform data searches, for an international effort aimed at locating...
[May 5, 2006, 8:55]
University computer cluster boosts Cern research
News The particle physicists and computer scientists organising these clusters in the UK are part of the Grid Particle Physics (GridPP) project. The Department of Physics at Queen Mary has partnered with Cern, the European particle physics laboratory in...
[May 8, 2007, 16:59]
'World's largest grid' demonstrated
News The grid is made up of over 6,000 machines, with over 1,000 in the UK alone, in 78 countries as part of the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) - the world's largest and first permanent grid, destined to carry out research into particle...
[September 6, 2004, 14:00]
Grid-lock?
Leader The particle physics experiments at the LCH, which is under construction at CERN in Geneva, are expected to produce some 15 petabytes of data per year. Last week, UK particle physicists demonstrated the world’s largest working grid at the e-Science...
[September 6, 2004, 13:50]
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]
UK scientists express joy at LHC switch-on
News He also added that it was "mindblowing" for particle physics to be getting the international exposure granted by coverage of the LHC. On the morning of Wednesday, 10 September, 2008, the first particle beam was successfully sent around the full...
[September 10, 2008, 13:03]
Cern lab hones business tech of the future
News Cutting-edge particle physics is being used to hone new technology that will eventually make its way into enterprises. The Cern nuclear-physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, is helping the technology industry refine the multicore processors...
[October 20, 2008, 12:43]
Cern's Large Hadron Collider powers up
News The confirmation of the existence of this as-yet-unobserved particle would validate much of what is currently believed to be true about physics. Within one hour, a particle beam had been successfully circulated through the machine.
[September 10, 2008, 0:01]
Oracle joins European grid project
News The LHC is expected to produce millions of gigabytes of data on particle physics, all of which will be crunched through the grid project. Oracle announced on Wednesday that it is joining a major European research project aimed at boosting grid...
[December 5, 2003, 9:30]
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. The Grid, which last month received a grant of 9.8m euros (about £6.2m) to be...
[January 17, 2001, 8:20]
Adobe takes to GridIron
News GridIron got its start from technology developed to process large quantities of data produced by experiments from the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
[February 3, 2004, 8:55]
Chips, the Universe and Everything
News At 46m long, 25m wide and 25m high, ATLAS is the largest volume detector ever constructed for particle physics. Each particle is mapped as it goes through multiple tubes, some of which are shown here.
[November 23, 2006, 11:21]
World's largest supercooled magnet gets going
News When fully operational in November 2007, the LHC will be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and will be used to investigate why particles have mass and the nature of the as-yet undetected dark mass that's thought to make up all but...
[November 23, 2006, 11:45]
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]
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News The LHC, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, was built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) to conduct experiments to test fundamental physics theories and to search for important new science such as the Higgs Boson.
[October 3, 2008, 14:07]
