A worker rides on his bicycle in the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel during maintenance. In late May, I had a chance to visit CERN, near Geneva, and visit with Jakub Mościcki, head of CERN’s ...

GENEVA--The CERN Computer Center is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe. About half of these cores will be used to deal with ...

Earth Observation (EO) and particle physics research have more in common than you might think. In both environments, whether capturing fleeting particle collisions or detecting transient traces of ...

SKA Organisation and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, signed an agreement formalising their growing collaboration in the area of extreme-scale computing. The agreement establishes a ...

Scientific institution CERN now has more than one million terabytes of disk space at its data centers. The exabyte of storage is split across 111,000 devices, primarily hard disks alongside a growing ...

Whether on the trading floor or in the CERN control rooms, vast streams of constantly changing data cross each other under the watchful eye of experts. On the one hand, physicists analyze the results ...

These sites distribute the data to about 160 Tier 2 sites that have enough computing and storage capacity for specific analysis tasks. The data is carried from CERN to the Tier 1 sites over new ...

Physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have demonstrated a dual-frequency Paul trap capable of confining both ...

It is just over a year since Cern, home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), became the base for the three-year pilot phase of the Open Quantum Institute (OQI). The OQI is a multi-stakeholder, global, ...

Most of what CERN does sounds like the rarefied heights of sci-fi, accessible only to physicists with badges and pocket protectors, or academics who use esoteric software -- not to mere mortals like ...