Read article 'Management practice for the global village'
Management practice for the global village
Through the Scandinavian CoDisCo project, CERN is helping to define management practice for large-scale distributed projects.
Read article 'Management practice for the global village'
Read article 'COMPASS course to future computing'
COMPASS course to future computing
A major new spectrometer that is being installed at CERN will be a flagship fixed-target experiment for the millennium. Its voracious appetite for data requires new computing solutions, opening the do...
Read article 'Weaving a better tomorrow: the future of the Web'
Weaving a better tomorrow: the future of the Web
The World Wide Web is 10 years old, but it is only just beginning to fulfil its potential. At the eighth World Wide Web conference in Toronto in May, James Gillies learned what the next decade might h...
Read article 'The MATHEMATICA Book, Version 4,'
The MATHEMATICA Book, Version 4,
Wolfgang Lerche reviews in 1999
Read article 'ABSolutely fabulous!'
ABSolutely fabulous!
Software is playing an increasingly important role in the tricky business of setting up the beams from particle accelerators. A recent workshop at CERN looked at what has been accomplished so far and ...
Read article 'RHIC Mock Data Challenge successfully completed at Brookhaven'
RHIC Mock Data Challenge successfully completed at Brookhaven
With Brookhaven's RHIC relativistic heavy-ion collider scheduled to be commissioned this year, preparations for its experimental programme gather momentum.
Read article 'EPIC developments in processing power'
EPIC developments in processing power
CERN's demanding data processing requirements provide the testbed for a new range of semiconductor chips and associated software developed jointly by industrial giants Hewlett-Packard and Intel and wh...
Read article 'The full Monte-Carlo'
The full Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo methods are vital simulation tools for studying high-energy particle collisions. To push the development of the Monte-Carlo generators, their underlying models and technical solutions, D...
Read article 'Web tool LIGHTs up code'
Web tool LIGHTs up code
CERN's Information and Programming Technology group has exploited the World Wide Web to make it easier to keep track of masses of computer code.
Read article 'Computing in high energy physics'
Computing in high energy physics
The 1989 Computing In High Energy Physics conference weighed up the challenges of analysing LEP and other data.
