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CERN demos giant 3D digital camera

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Derek Mathieson, project leader for the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, shows off the Atlas detector, a six story high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels. Mathieson explains how the detector uses open-source Java applications to collect data and how grid...

Tags: 3D, CERN, Digital Camera, Camera, Mathieson, Digital Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, JavaOne, Atlas detector, physics

Videos 2008-05-12

Large Hadron Collider will put academic networks to the test

The Large Hadron Collider LHC will be coming online this summer when its construction is complete outside of Geneva. Run by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the collider will be the largest facility of its type, designed to detect new types of subatomic particles, generate previously unseen...

Tags: CERN, Network, Data, Internet2, Networking, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Chip bugs can lead to major security disasters

Chip bugs can lead to major security disastersChip bugsShamir suggests that it's impractical to test all cases of 64*64-bit multiplication. But given the lifespan of a chip design, and given that the test only needs to be run once, wouldn't it be practical to design a "grid" or "distributed" test,...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Desktops, CERN, Shamir, Chip bug, chip, security disaster, security

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

Data corruption is worse than you know

Many people reacted with disbelief to my recent series on data corruption (see How data gets lost, 50 ways to lose your data and How Microsoft puts your data at risk), claiming it had never happened to them. Really? Never had to reinstall an application, an OS, or had a...

Tags: Disk, CERN, Data Corruption, Data, News, Error, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Researchers visit CERN in search of elusive Higgs boson

When Switzerlands CERN laboratory newest particle collider begins smashing atoms, scientists from the University of Chicago and Indiana University will be there to help crunch the data by using a worldwide supercomputing grid, reports Info World. Researchers have already begun experiments at the MidWest Tier 2 Center, one of...

Tags: Higgs Boson, particle, Education Technology, Science Ed

Blog posts 2006-12-27

ProCurve Networking partners with CERN to unlock the secrets of the universe

ProCurve and CERN CERN — the world's largest and most powerful particle physics laboratory — needed a secure, reliable network capable of handling 15 petabytes of data per year. The logical choice was ProCurve Networking by HP, and CERN has now deployed over 1,000 high-performance ProCurve Switches...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Partnership, CERN, HP ProCurve, Utility Computing

White papers 2006-10-11

EU welcomes autonomy plan for Net governance

EU welcomes autonomy plan for Net governanceA mistake in the making...Just wait and see."With our advice""With our advice, we will contribute to this transition to ensure that it takes place transparently, reflecting the interests of industry and civil society alike," Reding said."Sounds like they assume it would go terriblywrong without...

Tags: Internet, CERN

Discussion threads 2006-10-02

Internet showdown in Tunis

Internet showdown in TunisSpin turn spin turn pivot turn spin"The stakes are really very high. "Not really, everyone just hyping it."cyberbureaucracy"No spin in that word, no sir-ee."The Bush administration said in no uncertain terms in June that it intended to relinquish the United States' unique influence over dom..."Missed a 'refused...

Tags: Internet, government, CERN

Discussion threads 2005-11-14

Cryogenic Magnet Tests for the LHC: Process Operation Using Web-Based Tools and Facilities

For the Large Hadron Collider under construction at CERN, an essential requirement is the acceptance test of its 1706 Cryo-magnets in cryogenic conditions in a purpose-built facility at CERN. Several teams ensure the proper operation of the infrastructure on a round the clock basis. This paper gives a flavour of...

Tags: Web, CERN, Tool, Team Management, Productivity, Management

White papers 2005-09-19

Additional Resources

My 15 minutes with Bill Gates, and how the Web was born

Once upon a time, when Bill Gates still flew commercial and I was a budding journalist in need of a haircut, I had a number of opportunities to interview and otherwise interact with Bill Gates. It was often contentious, always intriguing, and more often than not frustrating as well. Part...

Tags: Web, Multimedia, PC, Bill Gates, Bill, Desktops, Hardware, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Google names new CIO

Google has named Benjamin Fried chief information officer. Fried, had been a managing director at Morgan Stanley's Application Infrastructure group. News.com's Stephen Shankland reports that Fried will take over in May. Fried replaces Douglas Merrill, who left earlier this month to go to EMI. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley, Benjamin Fried, Portals, Change Management, Web Technology, Channel Management, Productivity, Groupware, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for businessInventor of the WWW?Tim "...inventor of the World Wide Web..."Not really, in simple terms all Tim did was come up with the DNS system, the rest already existed and there were already other schemes in place which may well have been better...

Tags: Engineering, JUST LIKE, Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web, Ontological, G Wells, Tim, inventor, natural language processing, algorithm

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

Nine places where SOA is making a difference, right now

What kind of a year was 2007 for SOA? Yes, there was plenty of disgust and eye-rolling at all the hype around this still-emerging concept. But at the same time, we started seeing more and more examples of companies putting the methodologies and associated tools and platforms to innovative uses....

Tags: Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Comcast Corp., SOA, Portal, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWT

Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWTWow!Thanks so much for taking the time to post this. What a great description and comparison of Volta to GWT!I am so excited about Volta and it's possibilities!-Brandonhttp://dynamics-ax.blogspot.comRE: Microsoft architect compares Volta and Google's GWTNice idea, but slow as hell. Try the demos at...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Scripting languages, Volta, Microsoft Corp., GWT, Google Inc., GWT JSIO

Discussion threads 2007-12-07

Optimising LAN Access to Grid Enabled Storage Elements

When operational, the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN will collect tens of petabytes of physics data per year. The worldwide LHC computing grid WLCG will distribute this data to over two hundred Tier-1 and Tier-2 computing centres, enabling particle physicists around the globe to access the data for analysis....

Tags: LAN, Microsoft Access, Data, Grid, University Of Glasgow, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-09-21

An SOA built without Web services!

An SOA built without Web services!What in the article was "service oriented?"I'm trying to identify in the article where they mention anything that qualifies as "doing SOA." The article doesn't describe anything about the services, the interface they expose other than via JMS, the granularity of the services, etc. It...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, Channel management, B2B, SOA, Web service, Web, ebXML

Discussion threads 2007-06-26

An SOA built without Web services!

Last week, I posted some thoughts about divorcing Web services from service-oriented architecture. The two work together, but aren't necessarily the same. Lo and behold, this story from TechTarget comes up -- SOA is now being employed for the monitoring controls for the world's largest particle accelerator, but employing Java-based...

Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General, Case Studies

Blog posts 2007-06-26

University scientists set new data transfer records at SC06

Maybe it wasnt NASCAR, but at SuperComputing 06, scientists were pouring on the heat to see who could set the data transfer rate record at the "Bandwidth Challenge," reports Campus Technology A joint team of computer scientists, network engineers and physicists from the California Institute of...

Tags: Education Technology, Computer science, California Institute of Technology

Blog posts 2007-01-10

E-mail scammers face European crackdown

E-mail scammers face European crackdownOnce Again....Once again, there is no mention that the US will engage the email and other scammers who prey on the unwary by joining forces with others or by themselves. Our government is run by business so any business is good as long as the rich...

Tags: Government, Free trade, scammer, exchange rate, Third World, e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-01-03

Usability on the web is a sham

Grab your lighters people, because this may get me some flames, but it is something thats been on my mind for a while and the past couple of weeks have shown just how important experience is and how badly the traditional web does it. Humans have always been emotional creatures....

Tags: Web, Web browser

Blog posts 2006-12-13