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The IT Department is involved in a extensive range of
world-defining projects, committed to innovation and development
in grid computing, networking, storage and industry collaboration.
Our contributions to CERN as Global Laboratory include:
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WLCG |
Our flagship project, a global
collaboration linking grid
infrastructures and computer centres
worldwide. This is to distribute,
store and analyse the immense
amounts of data generated by the
Large Hadron Collider. |
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EGEE |
Europe's leading grid computing
project, providing a computing
support infrastructure for over
13,000 researchers world-wide, from
fields as diverse as high energy
physics, earth and life sciences. |
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UNOSAT |
Creating satellite-derived maps
in support of international
humanitarian relief effort. |
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Citizen CyberScience |
Providing individuals and
institutions in the developing world
with an appropriate low-cost
technology for operational service
platforms directed at pressing
humanitarian challenges. |
| EU
projects |
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| HEPiX |
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| CHEP |
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| WHO |
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LHCOPN |
Large Hadron Collider Optical
Private Network |
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India link |
Dedicated link from India to
CERN at 1 gigabit/s for LHC |
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USLHCNET |
High speed TransAtlantic network
for the LHC community. |
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openlab |
Collaboration between CERN and
industrial partners to study and
develop data-intensive solutions to
be used by worldwide science
communities. |
| Open Access Initiatives |
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ComIn |
The LHC Communication
Infrastructure Project |
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