Higgs boson researchers consider move to cloud computing
The European Nuclear Energy Association's (CERN) decade-old grid computing infrastructure has been used extensively during the past few years for research that culminated with discovery of the Higgs boson, or so-called "God Particle." WHAT IS THE …
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Intel Buys Whamcloud for Supercomputing Efforts
Intel is bulking up its supercomputing capabilities by buying Whamcloud, a startup that is a proponent of the open-source Lustre parallel distributed file system. Intel bought the company to help in its push toward exascale computing, according to …
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Computing grid built for physics benefits a wide range of science
(Phys.org) — Snaking cables and racks of computer processors with winking blue lights fill a room in University of California, San Diego's Mayer Hall. It's a powerful resource, made more so through links to a network of more than 80 similar centers …
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