Read article 'The LHC’s worldwide computer'
Mid-February marked the end of the first three-year run of the LHC. While the machine exceeded all expectations, delivering significantly more data to the experiments than initially foreseen, h...
Read article 'Deferred triggering optimizes CPU use'
Like all of the LHC experiments, LHCb relies on a tremendous amount of CPU power to select interesting events out of the many millions that the LHC produces every second.
Read article 'Hungary to host extension to CERN data centre'
Following a competitive call for tender, CERN has signed a contract with the Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Budapest for an extension to CERN’s data centre.
Read article 'The openlab adventure continues to thrive'
A personal account of how this bold initiative began.
Read article 'The ALICE computing project'
The ALICE software environment (AliRoot) first saw light in 1998, at a time when computing in high-energy physics was facing a challenging task. A community of several thousand users and developers ha...
Read article 'LHC@home 2.0 attracts massive support'
The public launch in August of a new application for CERN's volunteer-computing platform LHC@home produced an overwhelming response.
Read article 'Citizen cyberscience: the new age of the amateur'
How the audience can become part of the show in science.
Read article 'Hardware joins the open movement'
A new initiative facilitates collaboration in hardware design.
Read article 'Computing conference goes to Taipei'
The first experience with data from the LHC beats out the rhythm for CHEP 2010.
Read article 'EUAsiaGrid discovers opportunity in diversity'
A look at the unique aspects of a project to promote awareness of Grid computing.
