Today researchers working on the LHC experiment at CERN presented the observation of a new particle with a mass of 125 GeV. This is a very important step on the search for the standard model (SM) Higgs bosson in their data recorded up to June 2012. In this interview, Prof. Christoph Grab of ETH Zurich [...]
On Feb. 16 2012, the ATLAS I/O performance tests ran a CSCS showed that the current configuration of Phoenix, the cluster providing service to the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics, outperforms in terms of efficiency all other WLCG Tier-2 sites in the world. These tests, called HammerCloud, are periodically executed on the sites and the [...]
In the last weeks the international press was reporting about the first results in the search for the Higg particle at CERN. The infrastructure behind the the LHC experiment in Geneva is impressing in all respects. A large number of technicians and researchers is working around the clock assuring that the infrastructure is working. In [...]
Christoph Grab is professor for experimental physics at ETH Zurich and coordinates the computing infrastructure for the Swiss particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN. In this interview Christoph tells us what scientific questions the LHC experiments want to answer. He summarizes the most important results that have been presented at [...]
Today, CSCS announced the inauguration of phase D of the «Phoenix» cluster. Phase D increases the computing capabilities of Phoenix by 20% with 240 more cores, and storage increased by 30% with 230 TB, reaching a total of 1392 cores and 1 PB of disk. Phoenix is using the data produced at the LHC particle [...]
