Read article 'Exploiting the transatlantic light path'
Recent major exhibitions have provided the opportunity to demonstrate the potential of the high-speed link between Europe and North America, as Chris Jones reports.
Read article 'Grid technology goes to Pakistan'
As a natural extension of its participation in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, Pakistan has begun a deeper involvement in the LHC Computing Grid (LCG).
Read article 'The LCG gets started…'
This summer the IT division at CERN was a hive of activity as dozens of young software engineers worked round the clock to launch the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) Computing Grid (LCG) into its first ph...
Read article 'The CERN openlab: a novel testbed for the Grid'
A new model for partnership between CERN and industry is both integrating and testing emerging computer technologies for the LHC Computing Grid.
Read article 'Internet for the masses'
Onno Purbo, a prominent Indonesian IT expert, sees a self-financed, bottom-up Internet infrastructure as the key to achieving a knowledge-based society in developing countries.
Read article 'Laboratories link up to win Internet land speed record'
The transfer of data equivalent to two feature-length movies on DVD between California and Amsterdam in less than one second has been recognized as a new record by the Internet2 consortium.
Read article 'Canadians set record for long-distance data transfer'
A Canadian team has succeeded in transferring 1 TByte of data over a newly established "lightpath" extending 12,000 km from TRIUMF in Vancouver to CERN in Geneva in under 4 h - a new record rate of 70...
Read article 'Karlsruhe Grid computing centre is inaugurated'
To cope with the computational requirements of the LHC experiments, a worldwide virtual computing centre is being developed - a global computational grid of tens of thousands of computers and storage ...
Read article 'CERN hosts First Tuesday meeting'
Some 250 people came to CERN to learn about the latest developments in Grid computing technology.
Read article 'LHC and the Grid: the great challenge'
Ultra-high performance distributed computing software is vital for a successful LHC physics programme. This presents a challenge and an opportunity, says Robert Eisenstein.
