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The Grid gets real
Geneva, 13 November 2002. The European DataGrid (EDG)1 project has taken a major step towards making the concept of a world-wide computing Grid a reality. Its latest release of middleware – the software that makes a Grid of computers work together seamlessly – will support production quality Grid computing. Markus Schulz, one of the chief
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FP6 launch provides showcase for European research organizations
Geneva, 6 November 2002. CERN1 is one of seven of Europe’s leading international research organizations that have got together to produce an exhibition for the EU conference “European Research 2002 Ð The European Research Area and the Framework Programme” to be held at the Palais du Heysel in Brussels on 11-13 November. This exhibition is
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Live Webcasts from CERN for the European Science and Technology week
Geneva, 1 November 2002. Visit http://www.cern.ch/sci-tech on 7 – 8 November to find out what modern Europeans can’t live without. Seven of Europe’s leading Research Organizations1 are presenting three live Webcasts from CERN2 in a joint outreach programme for the European Science and Technology Week. The aim of Sci-Tech… couldn’t be without it! is to
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CERN experiment provides first glimpse inside cold antihydrogen
Geneva, 24 October 2002. The ATRAP1 experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator at CERN2 has detected and measured large numbers of cold antihydrogen atoms. Relying on ionization of the cold antiatoms when they pass through a strong electric field gradient, the ATRAP measurement provides the first glimpse inside an antiatom, and the first information about the
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CERN illuminates the “Shadows of the Infinite”
Geneva, 23 October 2002. CERN1 the world’s leading particle physics research laboratory, has joined forces with the London Institute, one of the world’s leading institutions in creativity to bring about a European revolution in arts and science with the aid of funding from the EC. The London Institute will unveil five radical new fusions of
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Marie Curie Fellowships showcased at CERN
Geneva, 1 October 2002. CERN1 becomes a showcase for European Union (EU) research on 3-4 October when it hosts a workshop for EU-funded Marie Curie fellows working in various fields of physics and technology. The Marie Curie scheme gives young researchers from around the continent the mobility to go to wherever Europe’s best facilities in
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HP joins CERN collaboration to advance grid computing technologies
Geneva, 25 September 2002. CERN1 and HP2 today announced that HP would join the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications. This group is an industrial collaboration formed to push the limits of emerging Grid technologies by developing novel solutions to the massive data storage and analysis challenges of both the research community and the IT industry.
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Thousands of cold anti-atoms produced at CERN
Geneva, 18 September 2002. An international team of physicists working at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) facility at CERN* has announced the first controlled production of large numbers of antihydrogen atoms at low energies. After mixing cold clouds of trapped positrons and antiprotons – the antiparticles of the familiar electron and proton – under closely monitored
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CERN launches Europe-wide tests of Grid technology
Geneva, 16 September 2002. Budding computer experts from around the world will this week begin their own tests of the latest software developed by the European DataGrid 1 Project. Students attending the 2002 CERN2 School of Computing in Vico Equense, Italy, will be submitting jobs that can run anywhere on the Project’s current Grid, which
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Brazil and CERN express interest in establishing closer links
Geneva, 22 July 2002. The map of countries affiliated to CERN1, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, may in future include Brazil. On a visit to CERN on 18 July 2002, the Brazilian Minister of State for Science and Technology, H.E. Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg, expressed his country’s interest in closer links to the Laboratory. During