http://www.silicon.com Results for Cern en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39558614,00.htm Photo credit: Cern) According to Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, the LHC could be restarted in November, after it was shut down following just nine days after it was first switched on. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:01:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39481562,00.htm After a year of setbacks, Cern plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider in November at a tempo that won't overtax the machinery behind the giant particle physics experiment. The collider, located deep underground on the border between France and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:49:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39475482,00.htm The latest delays to the restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are likely to have been caused by a faulty hose, according to Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. The hose vented helium into the vacuum insulation of the LHC... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:19:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60635166p,00.htm More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe work at the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) laboratory on ATLAS, a large-scale particle physics experiment that studies the forces that have shaped the universe since the Big... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:21:46 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39445485,00.htm The four detectors within Cern's particle accelerator - each looking for different particles and energy signatures - have built-in electronics and attached computer centres that analyse and throw away the bulk of the data they collect. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:41:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39462528,00.htm The world's largest particle collider is now unlikely to restart before mid-November, according to a Cern press statement. Adjacent sub-sectors will act as 'floats', while the remainder of the surrounding sectors will be kept at 80K, Cern said in... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:24:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39448356,00.htm The grid that will process data from the Large Hadron Collider has undergone stress testing, with Cern and other organisations trying to gauge its limits. The tests, called Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme '09, threw huge amounts of data... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:54:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/cio50-2009/kay-brown-39437771.htm Brown has worked in local government since 1991, before which she held several IT management positions in the private sector for BOC, Cern, Alexander Stenhouse and Honeywell Bull. As head of IT for South Lanarkshire Council, Kay Brown looks after... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:51:40 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39412408,00.htm For sheer breathtaking scale the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva must loom large on any technology fan's radar. Cern itself also houses the world's largest particle... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:00:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39417040,00.htm Image credit: Cern March kicked off with a photographic tour through Microsoft's vision of the workplace of the future. According to the software giant, a worker in the future will find that nearly everything in the office can serve as a computer... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:14:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itpro/0,39024675,39406830,00.htm While working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern), former physicist - and now Sir - Tim Berners-Lee produced a proposal that was to lay the foundations of the modern day internet. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:13:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39368018,00.htm The number of petabytes of data the flow through the network supporting Cern $1bn The value Steve Jobs reckons the iPhone App store will achieve Five million The estimated number of iPhone 3Gs sold in the third quarter of the year. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:34:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://comment.silicon.com/weeklyroundup/0,39024756,39366337,00.htm Top of the Round-Up's list of Christmas crackers is Cern, which gets a big thank you from the planet, largely for not causing the end of the world (phew) by sucking us all into a black hole, as predicted by some. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:17:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60483356p,00.htm OLE for Process Control (OPC) is a middleware solution for integration problems found in an industrial environment. Typically used for connecting devices to higher level processes such as SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems, it... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:58:10 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60502308p,00.htm The CESAR project team used the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) to build a controls system for the SPS experimental areas at CERN. This paper presents the CESAR architecture and the J2EE platform. It explains the J2EE features relevant for... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39340618,00.htm Scientists at Cern recently switched on the Large Hadron Collider, (LHC) which accelerates sub-atomic particles to 99 per cent the speed of light along a 27km circular tunnel - triggering collisions at energies similar to fractions of a second... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:37:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39337817,00.htm Business tech born in Cern's Big Bang lab Somewhere else that scientists have been cooking up cutting edge technology is the Swiss labs of nuclear research laboratory Cern, home of the "Big Bang" Large Hadron Collider experiment. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:46:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39332774,00.htm silicon.com's month in pictures kicked off with a mobile flavour. With so many touchscreen phones hitting the market we decided a photo round-up of five of the best was in order. Pictured here is the iPhone-esque Samsung Omnia. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:45:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60484791p,00.htm CERN's (European Organization for Nuclear Research) WISDOM project uses XML for the replication of data between different data repositories in a heterogeneous operating system environment. For exchanging data from Web-resident databases, the data... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:01:26 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60470593p,00.htm This white paper outlines the energy-saving strategies developed by CERN openlab and used by CERN, the world's largest physics laboratory, as it deploys massive new computing resources to support the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:01:29 +0000