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Enabling open access to books

An expanded collaboration agreement between CERN and the OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Foundation sees the Laboratory directly hosting the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books in its Data Centre

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Knowledge sharing
06 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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06 March, 2024

An exabyte of disk storage at CERN

CERN disk storage capacity passes the threshold of one million terabytes of disk space

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Computing
29 September, 2023
Computing
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29 September, 2023

Building work for CERN’s new data centre in Prévessin begins

On Friday, 22 April, a ceremony was held to mark the beginning of construction of CERN’s new energy-efficient data centre

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Computing
22 April, 2022

CERN data storage gets ready for Run 3

Extensive consolidation of the data storage infrastructure culminated in 2020 when the new CERN Tape Archive software (CTA) entered production

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Computing
23 September, 2020
Computing
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23 September, 2020

25 years ago: the strategic move to PCs in high-energy physics

In September 1995, a paper entitled “The PC as Physics Computer for LHC?” paved the way to a new era in high-energy physics computing

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Computing
22 September, 2020
Computing
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22 September, 2020

LHC: pushing computing to the limits

The LHC produced unprecedented volumes of data during its two multi-year runs, and, with its current upgrades, more computing challenges are in store

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Computing
01 March, 2019
Computing
News
01 March, 2019

CERN IT in 8 minutes

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Computing
Computing
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