Read article 'The CERN openlab: a novel testbed for the Grid'
A new model for partnership between CERN and industry is both integrating and testing emerging computer technologies for the LHC Computing Grid.
Read article 'Internet for the masses'
Onno Purbo, a prominent Indonesian IT expert, sees a self-financed, bottom-up Internet infrastructure as the key to achieving a knowledge-based society in developing countries.
Read article 'Laboratories link up to win Internet land speed record'
The transfer of data equivalent to two feature-length movies on DVD between California and Amsterdam in less than one second has been recognized as a new record by the Internet2 consortium.
Read article 'Canadians set record for long-distance data transfer'
A Canadian team has succeeded in transferring 1 TByte of data over a newly established "lightpath" extending 12,000 km from TRIUMF in Vancouver to CERN in Geneva in under 4 h - a new record rate of 70...
Read article 'Karlsruhe Grid computing centre is inaugurated'
To cope with the computational requirements of the LHC experiments, a worldwide virtual computing centre is being developed - a global computational grid of tens of thousands of computers and storage ...
Read article 'CERN hosts First Tuesday meeting'
Some 250 people came to CERN to learn about the latest developments in Grid computing technology.
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.
