Read article 'European computing cloud takes off'
A European scheme to make publicly funded scientific data openly available has entered its first phase of development, with CERN one of several organisations poised to test the new technology. Launche...
Read article 'Learning Scientific Programming With Python'
Pere Mato Vila reviews in 2016 Learning Scientific Programming With Python.
Read article 'CMS gears up for the LHC data deluge'
A trigger upgrade helps CMS tame collision environment of LHC Run 2
Read article 'The end of computing’s steam age'
Steam once powered the world. If you wanted to build a factory, or a scientific laboratory, you needed a steam engine and a supply of coal. Today, for most of us, power comes out of the wall in the fo...
Read article 'CERN’s IT gears up to face the challenges of LHC Run 2'
Résumé L’informatique du CERN prête à relever les défis de l’Exploitation 2 du LHC Pour l’Exploitation 2, le LHC va continuer à ouvrir la voie à de...
Read article 'Data preservation is a journey'
As an organisation with more than 60 years of history, CERN has created large volumes of “data” of many different types. This involves not only scientific data – by far the large...
Read article 'Korean Tier-1 link upgrades to 10 Gbps'
The Korean Tier-1 site of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) completed the upgrade to 10 Gbps of the bandwidth of its optical-fibre link to CERN.
Read article 'From the Web to the Grid and Beyond: Computing Paradigms Driven by High-Energy Physics'
Peter Clarke reviews in 2014 From the Web to the Grid and Beyond: Computing Paradigms Driven by High-Energy Physics.
Read article 'CERN School of Computing: 10 years of renewal'
How the CSC has been reinvigorated during the past decade.
Read article 'Networks Geeks: How They Built the Internet'
Cian O'Luanaigh reviews in 2013 Networks Geeks: How They Built the Internet.
