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The crowd-sourced physics simulator Test4Theory has reached one trillion simulations of particle collisions in just two years
Ahead of this month’s inaugural ISC Big Data conference in Germany, International Science Grid This Week speaks to CERN openlab’s Sverre Jarp
Wolfgang Lengert of the European Space Agency talks to International Science Grid This Week about big data and the Helix Nebula project
The Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Hungary hosts a major extension of CERN computing resources
Ian Foster, one of the founders of grid computing, on the challenges of big data
A new computer room housing 90 new racks of servers forms a significant expansion of the CERN Data Centre
Zenodo, hosted at CERN, will researchers to share publications and supporting data more easily
Behind the excellent results from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) lies the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid – a giant that never sleeps
A new animation from CERN's IT department shows how LHC data is collected and sent around the world for processing
At the 2nd Annual Meeting of CRISP in Switzerland, CERN delegates discussed the IT challenges the laboratory faces to deal with LHC data
Students took to the podium today at the Sixth Inverted CERN School of Computing
The CERN Data Centre has collected more than 100 petabytes of data – equivalent to roughly 700 years of full HD-quality movies