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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]
Chips, The Universe And Everything
News The Large Hadron Collider Main Dipole. 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.
[November 23, 2006, 11:21]
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]
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 Steps Up To Massive Storage Challenge
News One of its latest projects, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is being built to study particles and the forces that bind them together. This is far too large for a single datacentre," said Dr Helge Meinhard, technical coordinator for CERN-IT...
[September 6, 2006, 10:50]
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]
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]
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]
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. While no one expects the average person to need this type of bandwidth anytime soon, the demonstration is important in the...
[April 21, 2004, 10:40]
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]
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. The model is being applied on an international scale by academic...
[December 8, 2003, 14:40]
EU's High-speed Research Network Goes Global
News The Large Hadron Collider at Cern — the single largest scientific experiment ever conducted — also gets its global communications support from Géant. When it is switched on later this year, the collider will use the network to send 15 million...
[March 3, 2008, 12:30]
Quad Core At The Particle Of The Month Club
Blog They're going to need more than that when the Large Hadron Collider produces its gigabyte a second experimental results for its ten years or so of planned operation. More specifically, I'm at CERN where Intel wants to tell a large gaggle of...
[November 14, 2006, 8:24]
Making Light Of Big Science
Leader The opening of the Diamond Light synchrotron near Oxford, like the completion of the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, shows the health of basic research on a grand scale. Yet big science has been out of favour.
[February 8, 2007, 12:32]
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. The world's largest superconducting electromagnet has been turned on at full...
[November 23, 2006, 11:45]
'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 Computing To Solve Big Bang Queries?
News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid, being constructed at The mysteries of dark matter, multiple dimensions and even the conditions following the Big Bang could be solved with the help of the world's biggest computer grid — a big chunk...
[November 24, 2005, 12:55]
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]
Grid Survives Nuclear Test
Talkback 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...
[May 20, 2005, 11:27]
Grid-lock?
Leader With over 6,000 computers at 78 sites internationally, the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) is the first permanent, worldwide grid for science experimentation. Having already given us the World Wide Web, CERN (the European Organization...
[September 6, 2004, 13:50]
