Category: Computing

  • Accelerating innovation in computing technologies

    Last week, CERN openlab published its latest annual report, outlining progress made in 2018 on 17 joint R&D projects carried out between CERN and leading ICT companies. CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership. It was founded by CERN in 2001 to provide a way to collaborate with leading technology companies to tackle tomorrow’s ICT

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  • Web@30: The 30-year anniversary of an invention that changed the world

    Web@30: The 30-year anniversary of an invention that changed the world

    Geneva, 4 March 2019. Thirty years ago, a young computer expert working at CERN combined ideas about accessing information with a desire for broad connectivity and openness. His proposal became the World Wide Web. CERN is celebrating the 30th anniversary of this revolutionary invention with a special day on 12 March. In March 1989, while

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  • Save the date: the Web@30 on 12 March 2019

    Save the date: the Web@30 on 12 March 2019

    The Web@30 event is happening at CERN and you can join it from anywhere in the world

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  • Intel and CERN openlab team up for developer challenge

    Intel and CERN openlab team up for developer challenge

    The competition featured students working on exciting challenges within both high-energy physics and other research domains

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  • Facing up to the exabyte era

    CERN openlab works with industry to tackle the ICT challenges of the high-luminosity LHC

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  • CERN openlab tackles ICT challenges of High-Luminosity LHC

    CERN openlab tackles ICT challenges of High-Luminosity LHC

    CERN openlab has published a white paper identifying the major ICT challenges that face CERN and other ‘big science’ projects in the coming years

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  • Computer Security: STOP Spam!

    Some ideas to identify sophisticated spam

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  • Watch drone footage of CERN’s data centre

    Drone freestyle and racing world class champion Chad Nowak came to CERN to record acrobatic footage

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  • CERN openlab: looking ahead to the next 15 years

    After celebrating its 15th anniversary last year, CERN openlab looks back on its successes and what it hopes to achieve in the coming years

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  • The end of computing’s steam age

    Cloud technology offers a promising solution for the computing needs of particle physics

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