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The vast computing power at CERN crunches big data. Find out more about computing at CERN.
American Internet pioneer Vint Cerf presented “Big data and social media” at CERN
Can machine learning assist high-energy physics in discovering and characterising new particles?
New software allows you to visualise in 3D exactly what tracks particles leave inside the NA61/SHINE experiment
Untangle a rare particle decay from the background in LHCb data and you could win up to $7000
Representatives of major research institutions and leading IT companies came to CERN for a data analytics workshop organized by CERN openlab
At the ISC Big Data conference last week, Frank Würthwein of the University of California explained how CERN will manage big data in future
Ian Foster, one of the founders of grid computing, on the challenges of big data