Tag: Media
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CERN recognizes UK’s outstanding contribution to Grid computing
Geneva, 2 June 2004. CERN1‘s Director General, Dr Robert Aymar, today formally recognized the UK’s exceptional contribution to developing the next generation of computing by presenting awards for outstanding achievement to two British researchers who have been at the forefront of Grid computing at CERN. Dr Aymar also took the opportunity to praise the UK’s
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CERN Collaborates with Voltaire on Grid Technology Project
Geneva, Switzerland and Bedford, Massachusetts, US, 17 May 2004. The European Particle Physics Laboratory CERN1 and Voltaire, a leading provider of InfiniBand2 solutions for high performance Grid computing, announced today that Voltaire is contributing to the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications. CERN openlab is an industrial partnership which aims to create and test new Grid
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CERN and University of Pavia sign Berlin Declaration at meeting on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Geneva, 13 May 2004. First practical actions toward the realization of open access to knowledge in the sciences and in the humanities have been formulated at a meeting on the implementation of the recommendations in the Berlin Declaration held at CERN1, Geneva, 12 and 13 May 2004, and coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for
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First Fermilab LHC magnet leaves Illinois, bound for CERN
Geneva, 11 May 2004. Officials of the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab1), near Chicago, and CERN2 announced today the shipment of an advanced superconducting magnet from Fermilab to CERN. The first of a series of such magnets designed and built at Fermilab, the magnet is destined to play a key role
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New World Record announced for Internet Performance
Geneva, 20 April 2004 – An international team has set a new Internet2(R)2 Land Speed Record by transferring data across nearly 11,000 kilometres at an average rate of 6.25 gigabits per second (Gbps), nearly 10,000 times faster than a typical home broadband connection, from Los Angeles, USA, to Geneva, Switzerland. The Internet2 Land Speed Record
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European grid computing changes gear
Geneva, 31 March 2004. European plans for Grid technology change gear this week, as the pioneering European DataGrid (EDG) project comes to a successful end and a new project, the Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe (EGEE) project, begins. The EGEE project will build on the success of the EDG project and take Grid technology
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New Protocol is 50th anniversary gift to CERN
Geneva, 18 March 2004. Nine of CERN1‘s 20 Member States today signed a new Protocol on privileges and immunities. This brings the Organization into line with other European intergovernmental organizations, such as the European Space Agency and the European Southern Observatory, which already enjoy international status in all of their Member States. CERN already benefits
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Opening the Big Black Box: European Study Reveals Visitors’ Impressions of Science Laboratories
Geneva, 18th March 2004. On 29 – 30 March the findings of ‘Inside the Big Black Box’- a Europe-wide science and society project – will be revealed during a two-day seminar hosted by CERN1. The principle aim of Inside the Big Black Box (IN3B) is to determine whether a working scientific laboratory can capture the
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CERN launches 50th anniversary celebrations
Geneva, 1 March 2004. Celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of CERN1 officially begin on 8 March with the launch of a Swiss postage stamp dedicated to the Organization. At a press conference in Geneva, the stamp will be presented and details of events to mark the anniversary throughout the Organization's Member States will be
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CERN Council rings the changes for the upcoming years
Geneva, 19 December 2003. The CERN1 Council, where the representatives of the 20 Member States of the Organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, held its 126th session today under the chairmanship of Professor Maurice Bourquin. A review of the year’s activities by outgoing Director General Luciano Maiani, a new structure for CERN, and