Read article 'LHC computing: Milestones (archive)'
LHC computing: Milestones (archive)
LHC computing articles from the archive.
Read article 'LHC computing: Milestones (archive)'
Read article 'LHC computing: Switching on to the Grid (archive)'
LHC computing: Switching on to the Grid (archive)
When CERN's LHC collider begins operation, it will be the most powerful machine of its type in the world, providing research facilities for thousands of researchers from all over the globe.
Read article 'EGEE steps up a gear with a third phase of Grid infrastructure'
EGEE steps up a gear with a third phase of Grid infrastructure
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) is the largest multidisciplinary Grid infrastructure in the world, covering research fields from particle physics to biomedicine. Now the project has begun its thir...
Read article 'Detector controls for LHC experiments'
Detector controls for LHC experiments
Wayne Salter explains the basis for a new collaborative approach
Read article 'Under control: keeping the LHC beams on track'
Under control: keeping the LHC beams on track
Pierre Charrue describes the infrastructure to ensure correct operation
Read article 'Control systems for big physics reach maturity'
Control systems for big physics reach maturity
The 11th ICALEPCS conference looked at projects around the world.
Read article 'Symmetry breaking on a supercomputer'
Symmetry breaking on a supercomputer
The Japan Lattice QCD Collaboration has used numerical simulations to reproduce spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (SCSB) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
Read article 'Coupled-clusters point to faster computation'
Coupled-clusters point to faster computation
Calculations of the structure of heavy nuclei have long suffered from the difficulties presented by the sheer complexity of the many-body system, with all of its protons and neutrons.
Read article 'Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos'
Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Steve Reucroft reviews in 2006 Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos.
Read article 'The dark side of computing power'
The dark side of computing power
Urs Hölzle from Google points out that while the performance of commodity computer clusters continues to increase, so does their electrical power consumption.
