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Since 1970, the CERN School of Computing has trained more than 2600 participants from 80 countries in scientific computing
CERN openlab has published a white paper identifying the major ICT challenges that face CERN and other ‘big science’ projects in the coming years
The second CERN Network Hub, inaugurated on 19 July 2017, will ensure continuity of IT services in case of a major incident in the CERN data centre
The CERN Data Centre passed a major milestone on 29 June 2017 with more than 200 petabytes of data now archived on tape
Girls in ICT Day confirmed what we already knew: girls and women are much needed in the information and communication technologies field
Drone freestyle and racing world class champion Chad Nowak came to CERN to record acrobatic footage
Who would ever think of spending a full Saturday indoors, coding for several hours? Highly motivated Django Girls participants!
Applications are now open for CERN’s 40th School of Computing. The CSC 2017 will take place from 27 August to 9 September 2017 in Madrid, Spain
On 19 December 2016 a ceremony at CERN marked the tenth donation of computing equipment to an academic institution
Cloud technology offers a promising solution for the computing needs of particle physics
Newly created IT Consultancy Team provides advice on IT matters to communities at CERN starting new projects or reviewing computing activities of old
The first Django Girls event in Geneva took place at CERN last weekend