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...
Read article 'CERN computing wins top award'
This prestigious award was made to CERN for its innovative application of information technology to the benefit of society, and it followed the laboratory's nomination by Lawrence Ellison, chairman an...
Read article 'A major SHIFT in outlook'
I don’t remember exactly who first proposed running physics batch jobs on a UNIX workstation, rather than on the big IBM or Cray mainframes that were doing that kind of production work in 1989 a...
Read article 'Finnish technology takes on CERN’s data mountain'
That the World Wide Web - invented at CERN - has revolutionized the world of business is clear. Less well known is the lab's continuing role in transferring Web-based technology to industry. Finnish ...
Read article 'Workshop looks through the lattice'
Faced with the difficulty of doing exact calculations, theorists are turning to approximation techniques to understand and predict what happens at the quark level.
