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An expanded collaboration agreement between CERN and the OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Foundation sees the Laboratory directly hosting the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books in its Data Centre
CERN disk storage capacity passes the threshold of one million terabytes of disk space
On Friday, 22 April, a ceremony was held to mark the beginning of construction of CERN’s new energy-efficient data centre
Extensive consolidation of the data storage infrastructure culminated in 2020 when the new CERN Tape Archive software (CTA) entered production
In September 1995, a paper entitled “The PC as Physics Computer for LHC?” paved the way to a new era in high-energy physics computing
The LHC produced unprecedented volumes of data during its two multi-year runs, and, with its current upgrades, more computing challenges are in store