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  • Minor Review Meeting
    12/06/2012 - 14:00 to 17:00

    On a monthly basis, two presentations are given at the Minor Review Meeting, to update the teams on various projects. 

  • Major Review Meeting
    27/09/2012 - 09:00 to 13:00

    The meeting includes updates on the technical progress of ongoing CERN openlab projects, the activities of the various competence centers, and reports on management and communication activities.  More details can be found on the Indico page.

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CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide LHC community. 

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Recent Press Release

New phase of CERN openlab 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 CERN1 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 for this new phase. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide community working on LHC data. 

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Latest News

9 May 2012
Board of Sponsors meeting launches CERN openlab's next phase

On the 8th and 9th of May, the CERN openlab Board of Sponsors gathered at CERN to officially close phase III of the collaboration, and to launch its fourth phase, which will run through 2012 to the end of 2014.

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8 Mar 2012
The Higgs boson won't play hide and seek much longer

Pauline Gagnon relays exciting news from the Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy. Not only CMS and ATLAS from CERN see signs of the Higgs, but also CDF and D0 from Fermilab near Chicago. Find out more over on... Read More

5 Mar 2012
LHCb puts the Standard Model through the grinder

At the Moriond conference in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb experiment released new results showing that once more, despite all expectations, the Standard Model is standing tall and strong. LHCb is one of the four large experiments operating at the... Read More

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Recent Technical Documents

Document type Title Author(s)
CERN openlab report Evaluation of the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP server processor S. Jarp, A. Lazzaro, J. Leduc, A. Nowak
White paper Benchmarking ROOT Mirela-Madalina Botezatu
Summer student report Process accounting collection G. Cetusic
Summer student report Volunteer computing at CERN D. Dorneanu
Summer student report Cloud Computing for Control Systems A. Shaikh
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