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Cern CIO: Invest when times are bad
Insight newsmaker Putting resources in fundamental science and education during bad times will get results needed "to make things better and cheaper", argues the head of IT at the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Tags: grid computing, Business Strategies & Functions, CERN, CIO, biomedical, Silicon.com, financial, network, Earth, Geneva
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
News CERN's ground-breaking particle accelerator, which was shut down after a malfunction caused a leak of liquid helium, is scheduled to begin operating again in April.
Tags: CERN, Accelerator, grid computing, Switzerland, Tom Espiner, theory, scientist, Large Hadron Collider, director, France
Large Hadron Collider downed by faulty transformer
News Not long after the world's largest particle collider became operational, a transformer that helps cool part it malfunctioned, forcing operations to be suspended.
Tags: Networking technology, CERN, E-mail Message, phone, e-mail, theory, black hole, Earth, blog, scientist
LHC on course for November restart
News The giant particle accelerator should restart in mid-November, and could commence high-energy experiments before the end of the year.
Tags: Hardware, Magnet, Gillies, Beam Collision, CERN, Beam, scientist, Large Hadron Collider, Hardware
CERN's collider to get 'safe' start in November
News Nuclear research agency says it's satisfied that the Large Hadron Collider needs no more repairs and can get back to where it left off last fall.
Tags: Components, Supercomputing, CERN, Switzerland, New York Times Co., director, Components, France, Supercomputing
Culprit found for latest LHC leaks
News Liquid helium leaks that have pushed back the restart of the Large Hadron Collider are thought to have been caused by a fault in flexible hosing.
Tags: Components, Supercomputing, grid computing, Sector, CERN, Components, Supercomputing, grid computing
Cern celebrates 20 years of the Web
News At an event at the European Centre for Nuclear Research, Berners-Lee acknowledged the role of the center on the development of the World Wide Web 20 years earlier.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, CERN, Tim Berners-Lee, Next Computer, scientist, Web Site, WWW, Web, Internet
LHC re-start delayed again until September
News Latest postponement puts the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, back on line a year after an electrical malfunction forced its shutdown.
Tags: CERN, Malfunction, James Gillies, theory, director, April
Cern bombards LHC grid with data
News Tests of the computing grid that will manage data from the Large Hadron Collider experiment shows the systems successfully handled large amounts of information.
Tags: grid computing, Database management, Data, CERN, Asia, Grid, Europe, North America, leader, Database management
LHC restart pushed back further
News The U.K.'s Large Hadron Collider will come back online in late summer 2009 at the earliest, and not in June as previously expected.
Tags: Supercomputing, Infrastructure/architecture management, R&D, CERN, James Gillies, accident, theory, director, R&D, Infrastructure/architecture management
LHC restart pushed back again
News Cern's flagship particle accelerator, put out of commission by a quality-control flaw, will be switched on a couple of weeks later than previously expected.
Tags: Supercomputing, Business applications, CERN, Cable, Large Hadron Collider, Supercomputing
Ten examples of SOA at work, circa 2008
Techguide In the past year, many companies have finally moved on beyond the experimentation and pilot stages when it comes to SOA. Joe McKendrick presents stellar examples of where and how SOA made a difference for some companies in 2008.
Tags: Web services, Standards, Mainframe, ITIL, SOA, CERN, Enterprise Service Bus, Lufthansa, United Airlines, AbeBooks.com
Hackers break into Large Hadron Collider computer
News CERN says hackers accessed a computer system that monitors the particle accelerator experiments and analyzes data, according to a newspaper report.
Tags: Hacking, Networking technology, Network security, CERN, E-mail Message, Computer, phone, theory, black hole, Earth
Large Hadron Collider faces two-month shutdown
News A large helium leak resulting from an earlier transformer glitch has forced the world's largest particle collider to close temporarily on just day nine of its operation.
Tags: Networking technology, CERN, Particle, theory, black hole, News.com, blog, analysis, Large Hadron Collider, Networking technology
Cern lab hones business tech of the future
News The IT department at the lab behind the Large Hardon Collider is testing new tech from companies such as Intel and Oracle that will trickle down into enterprises.
Tags: Intel Corp., HP ProCurve, CERN, CPU, Database, Chip, Computer, network, Oracle Corp., data center
