Computing Archives – Page 8 of 19

The rise of deep learning

Deep learning is bringing new levels of performance to the analysis of high-energy physics data

Flooded LHC data centre back in business

Following severe damage caused by flooding on 9 November, the INFN-CNAF Tier-1 data centre of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) in Bologna, Italy, has been fully repaired and is back in business...

Time to adapt for big data

A report calls for radical changes in computing and software to ensure the success of high-energy physics experiments into the 2020s

Fermilab joins CERN openlab on data reduction

In November, Fermilab became a research member of CERN openlab – a public-private partnership between CERN and major ICT companies established in 2001 to meet the demands of particle-physics researc...

Servers for SESAME

On 12 September, 56 servers left CERN bound for the SESAME light-source facility in Jordan. “These servers are a very valuable addition to the SESAME data centre,” said Salman Matalgah, head of IT...

Facing up to the exabyte era

Openlab head Alberto Di Meglio explores the ICT challenges that must be tackled over the coming years.

Machine learning improves cosmic citizen science

The DECO team has developed a new machine-learning analysis.

SKA and CERN co-operate on extreme computing

On 14 July, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) organisation signed an agreement with CERN to formalize their collaboration in the area of extreme-scale computing. The agreement will address the challeng...

European computing cloud takes off

A European scheme to make publicly funded scientific data openly available has entered its first phase of development, with CERN one of several organisations poised to test the new technology. Launche...