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UberFlow: A GPU-Based Particle Engine
White Papers This paper presents a system for real-time animation and rendering of large particle sets using GPU computation and memory objects in OpenGL. Memory objects can be used both as containers for geometry data stored on the graphics card and as render...
[February 29, 2008, 0:02]
A Full Bandwidth Calibrator for a Sound Pressure and Particle Velocity Sensor
White Papers In literature it is shown that it is possible to calibrate a sound pressure and a particle velocity sensor in the free field at higher frequencies. If the sound pressure is measured with a reference microphone the particle velocity can be calculated.
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Quad Core at the Particle of the Month Club
Blog If this is Tuesday, it must be Switzerland. More specifically, I'm at CERN where Intel wants to tell a large gaggle of Emeahacks about quad-core processing. I'm really here for the high energy physics, but don't tell anyone - and if there's a...
[November 14, 2006, 8:24]
Particle Simulator
Downloads This program uses newtonian physics and openGL to display moving particles or point masses. Optimized for the alitvec.
[April 17, 2002, 7:00]
Fire Spiral Screensaver
Downloads Fire Spiral is a free particle effect screensaver. Another of the rounded particle effect screensavers - this circle of fire performs a delicate dance on your screen with yellow, orange and red fire colors.
[December 15, 2006, 15:12]
LHC restart pushed back again
News The flagship particle accelerator at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) is to be restarted in October as opposed to September. The world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermilab near Chicago, runs at 1 TeV.
[June 22, 2009, 13:38]
Date set for Large Hadron Collider launch
News A date has finally been announced for the switching on of the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. The particle accelerator was designed primarily as an attempt to produce the 'Higgs boson' — a hypothetical...
[August 8, 2008, 12:41]
CERN steps up to massive storage challenge
News Researchers at CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, face a truly immense storage challenge. One data stream is stored on magnetic tape, one data stream is sent to one or two of CERN's 11 "Tier 1" centres, while a third data stream...
[September 6, 2006, 10:50]
Progress made in Large Hadron Collider repair
News The final replacement magnet for the Large Hadron Collider has been lowered into the giant particle accelerator's tunnel. The magnet that was lowered underground on Thursday was a quadrupole: one of the magnets that focuses the particle stream...
[May 1, 2009, 15:38]
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]
Baguette 'dropped by bird' causes LHC disruption
News A piece of bread dropped on an outdoor electrical installation on Monday caused disruption to the world's largest particle accelerator, according to the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern).
[November 6, 2009, 16:22]
Large Hadron Collider faces two-month shutdown
News The world's largest particle collider has been shut down for at least two months due to a large helium leak stemming from an incident on Friday, officials said. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a gigantic particle accelerator located in a nearly 17...
[September 22, 2008, 8:18]
Faulty transformer downs Large Hadron Collider
News Not long after the Large Hadron Collider was launched last week, the world's largest particle collider experienced a malfunction affecting its cooling operations. The LHC, a massive particle accelerator, 17 miles in circumference and built along...
[September 19, 2008, 8:07]
Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
News Pre-initiation testing of the Large Hadron Collider has now been completed, ahead of the particle accelerator's official launch on 10 September. Synchronisation between the SPS and the LHC to within a fraction of a nanosecond is crucial to the LHC...
[August 26, 2008, 12:16]
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 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]
LHC restart date now June at earliest
News The world's most powerful particle accelerator will go live again in June at the earliest, following the fault that shut it down in September. The particle beams are held on their paths by dipole magnets and focused by quadrupole magnets.
[November 18, 2008, 14:44]
Tornado
Downloads Particle effects to the max! Contains many particle types and different color choices. Try out the fat cat particle or Dumbo like elephant with multiple color changes! Allows you to use up to 4 fingers at once for maximum pleasure.
[December 2, 2008, 8:43]
Euphoria
Downloads Web Euphoria contains 20 special effects plugins for Photoshop, includes tools for creating artistic effect as well as naturalistic phenomenon with particle-based fire, smoke and rain. These aren’t your typical “particle-only�
[September 10, 2005, 8:00]
Cern's Large Hadron Collider powers up
News Within one hour, a particle beam had been successfully circulated through the machine. The world's most powerful particle accelerator to date, the system is designed to recreate the conditions that existed a millionth of a millionth of a second...
[September 10, 2008, 0:01]
