Read article 'Meeting the ALICE data challenge'
Imagine trying to record a symphony in a second. That is effectively what CERN's ALICE collaboration will have to do when the laboratory's forthcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts up in 2005.
Read article 'Where did the ‘No-go’ theorems go?'
With quark-gluon calculations being extremely difficult, physicists have to use their ingenuity to get results. The most popular approach is to use powerful supercomputers to simulate a discrete sp...
Read article 'The grid is set to grapple with large computations'
Particle physics has always pushed computing and computing techniques to the limit - witness the World Wide Web developed at CERN. Continuing this tradition, particle physics at CERN will soon prov...
Read article 'Computer control of physics is increasing'
Control by computer was once the domain of major facilities like particle accelerators. With these methods now being used across the board, a recent international conference on control systems for ...
Read article 'Computing is put on the MAP'
The University of Liverpool has just commissioned a major computer system that is dedicated to the simulation of data for current and future scientific experiments.
Read article 'Weaving the Web – The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor'
James Gillies reviews in 2000 Weaving the Web - The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor.
Read article 'Neural computation points the way'
Neural computation - analysing data by simulating the way the brain works - is another area of application where high-energy physics is in the vanguard of development.
Read article 'New data centre is opened at Brookhaven'
Brookhaven and the State University of New York at Stony Brook have established a new centre for data-intensive computing at Brookhaven.
Read article 'The Gigabyte System Network is demonstrated at CERN'
To mark the major international Telecom '99 exhibition in Geneva, CERN staged a demonstration of the world's fastest computer networking standard, the Gigabyte System Network.
Read article 'FORTRAN 90/95 explained'
Despite the continual appearance of new programming languages Fortran, now well into middle age, soldiers on. This new edition summarizes the latest standards.
