World's Biggest Grid Hits 8Gbps High
News During the week-long challenge, the LHC Computing Grid sustained transfer rates of 8Gbps, which the developers are claiming as a world first for a permanent, international grid using scientific data. The LHC Computing Grid will be used to manage...
[February 17, 2006, 8:55]
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 ATLAS experiment is one of five in the LHC, and engages 1,800 scientists...
[November 23, 2006, 11:45]
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. Due to become fully operational around September 2007, the LHC will fire billions of protons round a 27km circuit...
[September 6, 2006, 10:50]
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]
Grid Computing To Solve Big Bang Queries?
News Discovering new types of particles can only be done by statistical analysis of the massive amounts of data the experiments will generate — which is where the LHC Computing Grid project comes in. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid, being...
[November 24, 2005, 12:55]
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]
Chips, The Universe And Everything
News The main experiment at CERN is the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. One of the urban myths about the LHC is that it might accidentally create a tiny black hole or other monstrous event that could destroy the Earth — even the entire Universe.
[November 23, 2006, 11:21]
UK E-science Centre Pushes Grid Computing
News Driving the process has been the construction of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), expected to be turned on in 2006 or 2007, at which time it will begin producing more data than any one organisation can reasonably hope to cope with.
[April 26, 2002, 7:31]
Oracle Joins European Grid Project
News The CERN project is intended to support the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently under construction and ranked as the largest scientific instrument in the world. The LHC is expected to produce millions of gigabytes of data on particle physics...
[December 5, 2003, 9:30]
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]
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. Researchers have set a data transmission record over the Internet2's high-speed backbone.
[April 21, 2004, 10:40]
Oracle: 'Tonka Toy' Of The Database Market?
News CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), the world's largest nuclear research organisation, is currently utilising the capabilities of the Oracle 9i database for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project.
[December 13, 2001, 11:43]
