Computing Archives – Page 15 of 18

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

PCs gain greater importance in particle accelerator control

Personal computers are steadily making inroads into some specialist and very impersonal fields.

Computing technology sits in the driving seat

Advances in physics go hand in hand with those in experimental techniques, and increasingly so with progress in computing and analysis. A recent workshop at Fermilab surveyed this fast-developing ar...

Data Grid project gets EU funding

Plans for the next generation of network-based information-handling systems took a major step forward when the European Union's Fifth Framework Information Society Technologies programme concluded ne...