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Melissa Gaillard is the CERN openlab communications officer.
Donation of servers to the Takoradi Technical University in Ghana marks the seventeenth donation of CERN computing equipment
The Web@30 event is happening at CERN and you can join it from anywhere in the world
The equipment will help build high performance computing facilities supporting fundamental research in Nepal
Since 1970, the CERN School of Computing has trained more than 2600 participants from 80 countries in scientific computing
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
On 19 December 2016 a ceremony at CERN marked the tenth donation of computing equipment to an academic institution
Come and join the CERN ISEF special award winners at their lightning talks session on 16 June at 3.00 p.m. in the main auditorium.
The first Django Girls event in Geneva took place at CERN last weekend
CERN hosts the special award winners of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2014
François Flückiger inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
Behind the excellent results from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) lies the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid – a giant that never sleeps