Read article 'Adapting to exascale computing'
CERN's Graeme Stewart tours six decades of computing milestones in high-energy physics and describes the immense challenges ahead in taming data from future experiments.
Read article 'Exploring quantum computing for high-energy physics'
On 5–6 November, CERN hosted a first-of-its kind workshop on quantum computing in high-energy physics.
Read article 'Boosting high-performance computing in Nepal'
On 28 June, 200 servers from the CERN computing centre were donated to Kathmandu University in Nepal.
Read article '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 ...
Read article '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...
Read article '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 o...
Read article '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'
How the CSC has been reinvigorated during the past decade.
Read article '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 use...
Read article 'Modern Perspectives in Lattice QCD: Quantum Field Theory and High Performance Computing. Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 93, August 2009'
This book is based on the lectures delivered at the XCIII Session of the École de Physique des Houches, held in August 2009.
