Read article 'CMS gears up for the LHC data deluge'
CMS gears up for the LHC data deluge
A trigger upgrade helps CMS tame collision environment of LHC Run 2
Read article 'CMS gears up for the LHC data deluge'
Read article 'The end of computing’s steam age'
The end of computing’s steam age
Steam once powered the world. If you wanted to build a factory, or a scientific laboratory, you needed a steam engine and a supply of coal. Today, for most of us, power comes out of the wall in the fo...
Read article 'CERN’s IT gears up to face the challenges of LHC Run 2'
CERN’s IT gears up to face the challenges of LHC Run 2
Résumé L’informatique du CERN prête à relever les défis de l’Exploitation 2 du LHC Pour l’Exploitation 2, le LHC va continuer à ouvrir la voie à de...
Read article 'Data preservation is a journey'
Data preservation is a journey
As an organisation with more than 60 years of history, CERN has created large volumes of “data” of many different types. This involves not only scientific data – by far the large...
Read article 'Korean Tier-1 link upgrades to 10 Gbps'
Korean Tier-1 link upgrades to 10 Gbps
The Korean Tier-1 site of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) completed the upgrade to 10 Gbps of the bandwidth of its optical-fibre link to CERN.
Read article 'From the Web to the Grid and Beyond: Computing Paradigms Driven by High-Energy Physics'
From the Web to the Grid and Beyond: Computing Paradigms Driven by High-Energy Physics
Peter Clarke reviews in 2014 From the Web to the Grid and Beyond: Computing Paradigms Driven by High-Energy Physics.
Read article 'CERN School of Computing: 10 years of renewal'
CERN School of Computing: 10 years of renewal
How the CSC has been reinvigorated during the past decade.
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 '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.
