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Sign up now for Raspberry Pi programming day at CERN

CERN is hosting a Raspberry Pi programming day on 12 April 2014. This event is free, but it is necessary to sign up to be able to attend

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11 March, 2014

Tool developed at CERN makes software citation easier

Source code from the popular software-development site GitHub can now be preserved and cited through the CERN-hosted online repository Zenodo

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05 March, 2014

Improving data analytics for better science

Representatives of major research institutions and leading IT companies came to CERN for a data analytics workshop organized by CERN openlab

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21 February, 2014
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21 February, 2014

Apply now for cloud computing school in Italy

Applications are now open for "Grid and Cloud Computing concepts and practical applications" in Varenna, Italy

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27 January, 2014
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27 January, 2014

The importance of OpenStack for CERN

Tim Bell of the IT department explains the role OpenStack plays in enabling CERN to flexibly tailor its computing resources to meet demand

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08 January, 2014
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08 January, 2014

Open Access publishing initiative to start in 2014

CERN today confirms that the Open Access publishing initiative SCOAP<sup>3</sup> will start on 1 January 2014

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05 December, 2013

Tracking scientific output across the web

The ODIN project, which aims to give scientific datasets persistent identifiers, recently held its first-year conference at CERN

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31 October, 2013
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31 October, 2013

Preparing for tomorrow's big data

At the ISC Big Data conference last week, Frank Würthwein of the University of California explained how CERN will manage big data in future

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04 October, 2013
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04 October, 2013

Video: CERN computing through the ages

A new video from the CERN IT department showcases the evolution of CERN's computing facilities since the 1950s

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03 October, 2013
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03 October, 2013

Crowd-sourced computing platform reaches one trillion events

The crowd-sourced physics simulator Test4Theory has reached one trillion simulations of particle collisions in just two years

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20 September, 2013
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20 September, 2013