Cern's Large Hadron Collider goes live
Published: 10 Sep 2008 13:38 BST
Two decades' worth of planning became reality on Wednesday, as physicists turned on the Large Hadron Collider for the first time.
The largest machine in the world — and arguably the biggest scientific experiment in history — the LHC is designed to answer some of our most fundamental questions about the origins and nature of our universe.
LHC restart date now June at earliest
Repairs to Cern's Large Hadron Collider, which suffered a serious malfunction shortly after being turned on in September, could cost as much as £11m [18 Nov 2008]
Cern CIO: Supporting the LHC's computing backbone
Cern's head of IT, Wolfgang von Rueden, explains the obstacles that lie ahead for the Large Hadron Collider, and why he's stopped reading related news reports [21 Oct 2008]
Cern lab hones business tech of the future
The IT department at the lab behind the Large Hadron Collider is testing new tech from companies such as Intel and Oracle that will trickle down into enterprises [20 Oct 2008]
Cern: Electrical fault caused LHC helium leak
A faulty electrical connection in the world's largest particle accelerator was the cause of a liquid-helium leak that damaged the machine, says Cern [17 Oct 2008]
Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry [07 Oct 2008]
Inside Cern's atom-smasher number-cruncher
The computer centre at Cern in Geneva will process some of the data generated by the LHC experiment, and will act as the point of transfer for the grid-computing project that will handle the rest [06 Oct 2008]
Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday [06 Oct 2008]
Date set for restart of Large Hadron Collider
The world's most powerful particle accelerator, built to test fundamental physics theories and to search for the Higgs Boson, will be ready to resume in April [03 Oct 2008]
Scientists' goals for the Large Hadron Collider
A CBS correspondent goes 300 feet underground to discover the aims of the scientists involved with the world's largest scientific experiment [29 Sep 2008]
Hadron Collider shut down until early spring
The world's largest particle collider, forced to close last week due to a helium leak, won't be repaired in time for a mandatory winter-maintenance period, pushing the restart date back to next year [24 Sep 2008]
Hackers attack Large Hadron Collider
Cern says hackers have accessed a computer system that monitors experiments and analyses data, according to a newspaper report [15 Sep 2008]
The heart of the LHC is more than science
Cern's Large Hadron Collider is science at its biggest. It is also profoundly human [10 Sep 2008]
UK scientists express joy at LHC switch-on
After the first circulation of a particle beam round the Large Hadron Collider, UK scientists told ZDNet.co.uk of their delight at the successful operation of the largest machine in history [10 Sep 2008]
Cern's Large Hadron Collider powers up
The world's largest machine switched on for the biggest scientific experiment of the 21st century shortly after 8.15am on Wednesday [10 Sep 2008]
Large Hadron Collider aces pre-launch testing
What should be the world's most powerful particle accelerator to date is now clear for its 10 September switch-on [26 Aug 2008]
Date set for Large Hadron Collider launch
What should be the world's most powerful particle accelerator will be switched on in just over a month's time [08 Aug 2008]
Cern paves the way for lightning-speed networks
Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fibre-optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator being switched on in August at Cern [16 Jul 2008]
Cern demos Java apps for giant 3D digital camera
Derek Mathieson, project leader at Cern, explains the use of Java apps by the Atlas detector, a six-storey-high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels [15 May 2008]
University computer cluster boosts Cern research
Cluster at Queen Mary, University of London will link into 100,000 processor computer grid to bolster scientific and medical research [08 May 2007]
World's largest supercooled magnet gets going
Data for a huge global computing grid will be generated by 860 tons of superconducting, niobium-titanium cored magnet [23 Nov 2006]
Chips, the Universe and Everything
We enter the cavernous halls of CERN, ostensibly to hear about Intel's quad-core processors, but really to ogle at massive particle physics experiments and track down the world's first Web server [23 Nov 2006]
Grid computing to solve Big Bang queries?
The world's biggest grid is in production, with the hope of confirming some unexplained theories of the universe [24 Nov 2005]
First phase of supercollider grid goes live
CERN has launched the first phase of a grid computing project designed to process data from the Large Hadron Collider, which will search for the origins of the universe [29 Sep 2003]
Big Bang project sparks supercomputer plans
IT companies such as Intel and HP are lining up to help out with CERN's Large Hadron Collider project, seeing it as the ideal testing ground for new technologies [02 Apr 2003]
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