Read article 'LHC and the Grid: the great challenge'
Ultra-high performance distributed computing software is vital for a successful LHC physics programme. This presents a challenge and an opportunity, says Robert Eisenstein.
Read article 'Grid technology developed by ALICE'
The ALICE experiment, which is being prepared for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, has developed the ALICE production environment.
Read article 'Physicists create font for antimatter'
Physicists from the University of Mississippi in the US have developed the font, LinguistA, which allows to represent antimatter particles in Microsoft Word easier.
Read article 'D0 physicists ‘shake hands’ across the Atlantic in key grid test'
n an important test of datagrid technology, members of the D0 collaboration at Fermilab have successfully communicated across the Atlantic with colleagues in the UK.
Read article 'Particle physics software aids space and medicine'
Geant4 is a showcase example of technology transfer from particle physics to other fields such as space and medical science, argue Maria Grazia Pia and Jürgen Knobloch.
Read article 'Datagrid is put to the test'
The European Union funded DataGrid project passed its first-year review at the beginning of March.
Read article 'New high-speed data link between CERN and the US'
The growth of international collaboration in science was underlined last December by the award of a contract to Dutch telecoms provider KPNQuest for a new transatlantic high-speed data link at 622 Mbp...
Read article 'Green light for massive increase in computing power for LHC data'
The first phase of the impressive Computing Grid project for CERN's future Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was approved at a special meeting of CERN's Council, its governing body, on 20 September.
Read article 'CERN sells its internal transaction management software to UK firm'
CERN has sold its Internal Transaction Management system to UK internal transaction management concern Transacsys for 1 million Swiss francs (EURO 660,000).
Read article 'Close encounters with clusters of computers'
To satisfy their ever-increasing demand for more and affordable computing power, particle physics experiments are using clusters of off-the-shelf PCs. A recent workshop at Fermilab looked at the imp...
