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Aust customs security chief paints sober picture
News Hackers are now targeting specific government personnel, according to the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service.
Tags: Hacking, Viruses and worms, Malware, Security, Conference, AusCERT, Microsoft Windows Vista, Information Security, USB, Australia
Intel makes quantum leap in fiber optic detectors
News The company has developed silicon-based photoelectric detectors that can cut the cost of fiber-optic communications to a fraction of their current value.
Tags: Processors, Video, Intel Corp., Fiber-optics, Fiber, Device, Photonics, Fiber-optic Communication, DARPA, Mario Paniccia
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, accident, theory, director, R&D, Infrastructure/architecture management, Supercomputing
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
Date set to fire up world's most-powerful particle accelerator
News Large Hadron Collider, which sits in a nearly 17-mile-long circular tunnel that lies beneath the French-Swiss border, is set to start circulating particles next month.
Tags: Particle Accelerator, CERN, Beam, Particle, black hole, leader, Large Hadron Collider
At CERN, computers to tackle the Big Bang
News Scientists hope the Large Hadron Collider will offer clues to the origin of the universe. They will get some help from a well-stocked data center.
Tags: Data, CERN, Particle, Tape, Computer, processor, console, hard drive, network, Linux
One step closer to age of nanowire transistors?
News IBM-Purdue researchers say nanowires may work in making PCs, consumer electronics because they form the same way every time.
Tags: Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Electronics, Manufacturing, Chip, Purdue University, Particle, Catalyst, Silicon, Gordon Moore
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
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
Superfast Ethernet project aims for 100Gbps
News U.S. government-funded project at Berkeley Labs plan to develop a superfast network capable of sharing large amounts of research data.
Tags: Web 2.0, Mobile platforms/communications, Department Of Energy, Juniper Networks Inc., U.S. Department of Energy, supercomputer, financial, network, scientist, Ethernet
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
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
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, theory, director, April, James Gillies
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
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
