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Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
News The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors. Scientists who spent years building the grid and its dedicated 10Gbps connections to 11 key sites — the main universities and...
[October 6, 2008, 9:51]
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News The Large Hadron Collider will be turned on again at the beginning of April, according to Cern director general Robert Aymar. Aymar spoke to ZDNet.co.uk at the official launch of grid computing at Cern on Friday.
[October 3, 2008, 14:07]
Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
News The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. A large part of the existing computer centre in Geneva is devoted to processing and storing the...
[October 7, 2008, 13:38]
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. LHC computing-grid project leader Ian Bird said on Friday that Cern had tried to break the...
[July 3, 2009, 16:07]
First phase of supercollider grid goes live
News CERN is building a machine called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to test the "big bang" theory of how the universe began, but they must first construct a computer network that can handle the volumes of data the device will produce.
[September 29, 2003, 17:50]
Cern paves the way for lightning-speed networks
News The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG), a super high-bandwidth network, will channel about 15 petabytes — 15 million gigabytes — of data from the LHC to about 5,000 scientists in 500 institutions every year for at least 10 years.
[July 16, 2008, 9:30]
Big Bang project sparks supercomputer plans
News The new, more powerful particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is being built at CERN, the same Swiss laboratory where Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web. Grey said scientists are pretty sure the collider will produce...
[April 2, 2003, 7:38]
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. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is the world's largest machine, is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel located 100m under the...
[September 10, 2008, 0:01]
Sun has its head in the clouds
Leader For instance there is the Large Hadron Grid Collider here in the UK. But all real-world examples of utility and grid computing for large organisations entail tightly controlled computers in tightly controlled environments.
[September 22, 2004, 12:25]
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]
Oracle: UK plc 'needs grid to compete'
News A notable example is European research lab CERN, the birthplace of the Web, which is spurring grid development ahead of the launch of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator. Grid computing will be the single most important factor keeping...
[December 8, 2003, 14:40]
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]
University computer cluster boosts Cern research
News The grid under development will have a number of purposes, including the analysis of data from the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, which opens at Cern in Switzerland later this year.
[May 8, 2007, 16:59]
Chips, the Universe and Everything
News The main experiment at CERN is the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. This is the Large Hadron Collider, which will whizz particles into each other at close to the speed of light for more than ten years. The Large Hadron Collider Main Dipole.
[November 23, 2006, 11:21]
UK scientists express joy at LHC switch-on
News On the morning of Wednesday, 10 September, 2008, the first particle beam was successfully sent around the full circuit of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern).
[September 10, 2008, 13:03]
Cern lab hones business tech of the future
News Through the project, the IT department at the lab behind the Large Hadron Collider pushes cutting-edge kit to breaking point to perfect it for its own use, and the consumer and business markets. The lab has partnerships with companies including HP...
[October 20, 2008, 12:43]
'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]
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). UK physicists have taken part in the latest test of an international scientific computing grid under working conditions.
[February 17, 2006, 8:55]
Linux holds key to future of climate change
News According to Budich, the contribution of Géant2 — which is also used by scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider — cannot be overstated. A scientific project that will help govern how the European Commission tackles climate change is relying...
[December 9, 2008, 6:30]
Internet2 sets new speed record
News CERN and its partners have already begun building such a network; it's called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid. Caltech is involved in building the TeraGrid supercomputing network, which connects the National Centre for Supercomputing...
[April 21, 2004, 10:40]
