Read article 'PCs gain greater importance in particle accelerator control'
PCs gain greater importance in particle accelerator control
Personal computers are steadily making inroads into some specialist and very impersonal fields.
Read article 'PCs gain greater importance in particle accelerator control'
Read article 'Computing technology sits in the driving seat'
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...
Read article 'Data Grid project gets EU funding'
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...
Read article 'How the Web was Born'
How the Web was Born
Ben Segal reviews in 2000 How the Web was Born.
Read article 'Quantum Computation and Quantum Information'
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
This book is designed to be accessible by those who do not necessarily have a background in quantum physics.
Read article 'RHIC starts producing data'
RHIC starts producing data
After achieving first collisions of gold ion beams on the night of 12 June, the gleaming new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility at Brookhaven wasted no time in ramping up in energy and i...
Read article 'Workshop tackles GLOBUS and Grid'
Workshop tackles GLOBUS and Grid
The Grid, a highly distributed computing environment that is seen by many as a step beyond the World Wide Web, is catalysing many new computing developments.
Read article 'Meeting the ALICE data challenge'
Meeting the ALICE data challenge
Imagine trying to record a symphony in a second. That is effectively what CERN's ALICE collaboration will have to do when the laboratory's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts up in 2005.
Read article 'Where did the ‘No-go’ theorems go?'
Where did the ‘No-go’ theorems go?
With quark-gluon calculations being extremely difficult, physicists have to use their ingenuity to get results. The most popular approach is to use powerful supercomputers to simulate a discrete sp...
Read article 'The grid is set to grapple with large computations'
The grid is set to grapple with large computations
Particle physics has always pushed computing and computing techniques to the limit - witness the World Wide Web developed at CERN. Continuing this tradition, particle physics at CERN will soon prov...
