Read article 'Control systems for big physics reach maturity'
Control systems for big physics reach maturity
The 11th ICALEPCS conference looked at projects around the world.
Read article 'Control systems for big physics reach maturity'
Read article 'Symmetry breaking on a supercomputer'
Symmetry breaking on a supercomputer
The Japan Lattice QCD Collaboration has used numerical simulations to reproduce spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking (SCSB) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
Read article 'Coupled-clusters point to faster computation'
Coupled-clusters point to faster computation
Calculations of the structure of heavy nuclei have long suffered from the difficulties presented by the sheer complexity of the many-body system, with all of its protons and neutrons.
Read article 'In need of the human touch'
In need of the human touch
Software development is more than engineering and still needs the human factor to be successful, says Federico Carminati.
Read article 'Going public: a new paradigm'
Going public: a new paradigm
For David P Anderson, project leader of SETI@home, the future of scientific computing is public.
Read article 'The CERN openlab: a novel testbed for the Grid'
The CERN openlab: a novel testbed for the Grid
A new model for partnership between CERN and industry is both integrating and testing emerging computer technologies for the LHC Computing Grid.
Read article 'A major SHIFT in outlook'
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...
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 '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...
