What is Grid Computing about? Grid’s goal is about sharing resources that belong to multiple administrative entities and providing them as a unified resource to end-users, that may themselves belong to multiple administrative domains. CERN is betting heavily on this concept with the LHC Computing Grid project (also known as “LCG”), in an effort to [...]
CSCS is happy to announce that Phoenix PhaseC Upgrade passed today the acceptance test. Phoenix is a HPC system run by CSCS used by the researchers of the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics CHIPP to analyze the data from the LHC experiment at CERN. The upgrade has been delivered and installed by Sun and will [...]
Today has been a special day here at CSCS for the HPC Co-Location Services team: We were following with crossed fingers the first collisions of the LHC collider at CERN. And everything went well! We are very proud with the cluster Phoenix of CHIPP to contribute as Tier 2 to the analysis of the large [...]
Today marks the start of the LHC research programme with the first attempt for collisions at 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam). Webcasts are available until 18:15 (Central European Summer Time – CEST). The main webcast will include live footage from the control room for the LHC accelerator and from the control rooms of the [...]
