Read article 'Servers for SESAME'
On 12 September, 56 servers left CERN bound for the SESAME light-source facility in Jordan. “These servers are a very valuable addition to the SESAME data centre,” said Salman Matalgah, head of IT...
Read article 'Facing up to the exabyte era'
Openlab head Alberto Di Meglio explores the ICT challenges that must be tackled over the coming years.
Read article 'Machine learning improves cosmic citizen science'
The DECO team has developed a new machine-learning analysis.
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 address the challeng...
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 technology. Launche...
Read article 'Learning Scientific Programming With Python'
Pere Mato Vila reviews in 2016 Learning Scientific Programming With Python.
Read article 'CMS gears up for the LHC data deluge'
A trigger upgrade helps CMS tame collision environment of LHC Run 2
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 of the wall in the fo...
Read article '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'
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...
