GENEVA--The CERN Computer Center is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe. About half of these cores will be used to deal with ...

This article, and hundreds of millions of others, are viewable online across the globe because 30 years ago a computer scientist took a break from his research group’s work in particle physics to ...

For the past five years, the mad scientists at CERN have been connecting their computers to colleagues’ around the world to pool their processing power. This so-called Worldwide Grid turns a regular ...

Plans for dealing with the torrent of data from the Large Hadron Collider’s detectors have made the CERN particle-physics lab, yet again, a pioneer in computing as well as physics. Andreas Hirstius ...

In 2012, when most of the UK was gearing up for the London Olympics, strange words started to enter our vocabulary. Terms such as “Higgs boson” and “Large Hadron Collider (LHC)” were hitting the ...

Few chief information officers could claim to have helped recreate the big bang while at work. But as head of IT at Cern, Wolfgang von Rueden plays a key role in the nuclear-research lab's quest to ...

CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the world to crunch data on ...

GENEVA CERN, the worlds biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the world to crunch data ...

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is contributing to the fight against COVID-19 by donating computing resources to the Folding@home project. The Folding@home project is a ...

A new computer cluster has been unveiled by Queen Mary, University of London that will link to a 100,000 processor grid in the UK and around the world. The projects that will be researched include a ...

1. What is the CERN physics laboratory and what does it do? CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is a particle physics laboratory based in Geneva, Switzerland. A huge innovator and ...