CERN NEWS : OPENLAB

The fourth phase of the CERN openlab partnership to tackle exascale IT challenges for science
Geneva, 9 May 2012. The fourth phase of CERN openlab was officially launched during a meeting of its board of sponsors taking place at CERN on 8 and 9 May. CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading information technology companies HP, Intel, Oracle, Siemens with contribution from Huawei. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide community working on LHC data. 

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator, generates hundreds of millions of particle collision each second. The record, storage and analysis of these vast amounts of collisions present a massive data challenge: the LHC produces roughly 20 million Gigabytes of data each year.

CERN openlab was created more than 10 years ago, to develop innovative, advanced IT systems required to cope with the unprecedented computing challenge of the LHC. It brings together the efforts of science and industry, working at the cutting edge of research to ever expand technological boundaries.
The third phase of CERN openlab was officially closed during the meeting of partners. The assembly reviewed key achievements of the projects carried out, and agreed on their very positive impact on the development of the Grid and computing services which underpin the LHC.

[Coldchaos]

If you don't see the discoveries you aren't paying attention. That and the technology built for the detectors/data processing has already found its way into the private and medical sectors of industry.

[MnM]

You should follow their log. They have detected the Higgs Boson with more than a 99.9% certainty. The official announcement is coming this December.

[STAG]

10-15 years from now I can see most of that hardware going up on something like ebay or the antiques roadshow. :P Computing technology is infinitely down-scalable, as we've seen from the 1940's and 50's..

[TheCrookHook]

Damn, I wanna work in that server room. lol

[TurkiyeCumhurbaskani]

I would like to work there I am a computer graphics designer

[CPS]

@lastpoet1 they were looking to recreate God's particle. The truth is quite different. CERN exploded.
Check the statute of Zashradeh (Nefelim) outside CERN.

[DX]

Not infinitely, there are the limits of physics you know. But it is growing geometrically.

[oldglstuf]

Okay, but where's the Higgs? How about a weekly Youtube update, even if it's just to say "nothing new this week!"