Tag: News
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Harnessing a supercomputer for ATLAS
The Vega supercomputer in Slovenia is the most recent HPC centre to process ATLAS experimental data
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Computer Security: Permanent chess
Providing computer security for an organisation, company or university resembles playing a permanent game of chess
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Five CERN apprentices received their diplomas in 2021
Four technical apprentices and one library apprentice received their diplomas in 2021
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Autopsy of an LHC beam dump
For the first time at CERN, an autopsy has been carried out on a radioactive beam dump. Inspection of the inner workings of the device helped the teams to find out more about how materials behave under the impact of high-energy beams
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What will the future LHC beam dumps be made of?
A new experiment has been performed at the HiRadMat facility to test various materials that could be used in the LHC and HL-LHC beam dumps
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Burotel: Sharing common space at CERN
The “Burotel” tool allows those without an assigned office to find a desk for a limited and defined time
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Environmental awareness: Energy at CERN
This infographic provides food for thought about CERN’s energy consumption and invites you to submit your ideas for its optimisation through an idea box. Take part! ____________ This infographic is part of the series “CERN’s Year of Environmental Awareness”
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Arts at CERN celebrates its 10th anniversary
The celebrations kick off with the launch of a podcast series that brings artists and scientists into conversation
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Computer Security: Wrong link, wrong login, and BOOM
Clicking on a malicious link or attachment, or disclosing your password in reply to a malignant email or on a fake and nasty CERN Single Sign-On page, are two major attack vectors for the evil side to infiltrate CERN
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The Schools Challenge: time to open the boxes!
On Friday, 13 May, local primary schoolchildren attended an event in the Globe of Science and Innovation to reveal the contents of boxes they had carefully prepared as a challenge for CERN’s scientists