Read article 'Networks Geeks: How They Built the Internet'
Networks Geeks: How They Built the Internet
Cian O'Luanaigh reviews in 2013 Networks Geeks: How They Built the Internet.
Read article 'Networks Geeks: How They Built the Internet'
Read article 'Data centre opens'
Data centre opens
CERN and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics inaugurated the CERN Tier-0 data-centre extension in Budapest on 13 June, marking the completion of the facility.
Read article 'CERN data centre passes 100 petabytes'
CERN data centre passes 100 petabytes
On the same day that the LHC’s first three-year physics run ended, CERN announced that its data centre had recorded more than 100 petabytes (PB) – 100 million gigabytes – of physics data.
Read article 'The LHC’s worldwide computer'
The LHC’s worldwide computer
Mid-February marked the end of the first three-year run of the LHC. While the machine exceeded all expectations, delivering significantly more data to the experiments than initially foreseen, h...
Read article 'Deferred triggering optimizes CPU use'
Deferred triggering optimizes CPU use
Like all of the LHC experiments, LHCb relies on a tremendous amount of CPU power to select interesting events out of the many millions that the LHC produces every second.
Read article 'Hungary to host extension to CERN data centre'
Hungary to host extension to CERN data centre
Following a competitive call for tender, CERN has signed a contract with the Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Budapest for an extension to CERN’s data centre.
Read article 'The openlab adventure continues to thrive'
The openlab adventure continues to thrive
A personal account of how this bold initiative began.
Read article 'The ALICE computing project'
The ALICE computing project
The ALICE software environment (AliRoot) first saw light in 1998, at a time when computing in high-energy physics was facing a challenging task. A community of several thousand users and developers ha...
Read article 'LHC@home 2.0 attracts massive support'
LHC@home 2.0 attracts massive support
The public launch in August of a new application for CERN's volunteer-computing platform LHC@home produced an overwhelming response.
Read article 'Citizen cyberscience: the new age of the amateur'
Citizen cyberscience: the new age of the amateur
How the audience can become part of the show in science.
