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2012

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01 Feb 2012

John Gustafson from Intel will give a computing colloquium at CERN on Thursday 9 February on computer 'speed' definition

26 Jan 2012

Herbert Cornelius from Intel will give a computing seminar on Monday 6 February on high-throughput x86 computing (TFLOPS on a chip)

18 Jan 2012

Registration to the CERN openlab/Intel Winter Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop is now open

11 Jan 2012

Registration to the CERN openlab/Intel Winter Numerical Computing Workshop is now open

2010

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1 Dec 2010

The materials from the two-day workshop on new Intel Software technology is now available to you

19 Nov 2010

Registration for the Intel S/W products workshop (29th-30th November) is now open!

4 Nov 2010

The November Technical Meeting gives an update on the GPU topic and an overview of discussions and presentations done at CHEP on this matter 

20 Sep 2010

On Monday 27 September, Tim Mattson from Intel will be giving a computing seminar on design patterns at CERN

9 Aug 2010

Prof. Dr. Hermann Requardt, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of the Healthcare Sector, visits CERN

28 July 2010

Dr. David Levinthal from Intel Corporation visits CERN openlab and holds an advanced two-day workshop on performance monitoring

27 July 2010

Prof. Dr. Hermann Requardt, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of the Healthcare Sector, will give a computing colloquium at CERN on Tuesday 3 August on 'Innovation Concepts in Healthcare'

8 June 2010

The Oracle Java product management team will give a computing seminar at CERN on Monday 14 June on some of the advanced Java runtime technologies that are part of the Oracle JRockit family

29 April 2010

Jeff Arnold from Intel will give a computing seminar at CERN on Tuesday 11 May on the software aspects of IEEE floating-point computations for numerical applications in High Energy Physics

29 April 2010

Kathleen Knobe from Intel will give a computing seminar at CERN on Friday 7 May on her current work on "Concurrent Collections" (CnC)

25 Mar 2010

Patrick Goldsack from HP Labs gave a computing seminar at CERN on Wednesday 24 March on 'Cells-as-a-Service', the Enterprise-Grade Cloud Infrastructure Research at HP Laboratories

23 Mar 2010

Tim Mattson from Intel gave a computing seminar on OpenCL, Design Patterns and Software for heterogeneous many core platforms at CERN on Monday 15 March

5 Mar 2010

Tim Mattson from Intel will be giving a computing seminar on OpenCL, Design Patterns and Software for heterogeneous many core platforms at CERN on Monday 15 March

16 Feb 2010

The February Technical Meeting discusses processors architecture and tests results

11 Jan 2010

The Siemens openlab team lays emphasis on cyber security analysis for industrial control systems

2009

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10 Dec 2009

The Oracle openlab team makes major advances

10 Dec 2009

CERN openlab tests Oracle's Advanced Compression Option with Exadata

30 Nov 2009

Dr. Rajeeb Hazra will be giving a computing seminar on Exascale Computing at CERN on Friday 4 December

24 Nov 2009

Intel and openlab continue to deliver training to CERN's programmers

6 Nov 2009

The team evaluates the energy consumption and performance of Intel's Xeon 5500 DP servers

20 Oct 2009

openlab tests PVSS Oracle Archiver

19 Oct 2009

The Platform Competence Centre conducts multi-core scalability tests with CERN software

6 Oct 2009

CINBAD team analyses 100GB of data per day

28 Sep 2009

Dr. Pradeep K. Dubey will be delivering a computing seminar at CERN on Monday, October 5, on current Intel R&D activities on throughput computing

16 June 2009

The June CERN openlab Technical Meeting discusses scalability tests of a multithreaded Geant4 prototype and the Larrabee new instructions

19 May 2009

The May Technical Meeting discusses security standards convergence and relevance in Process Control Systems as well as the automated deployment of Siemens software

07 May 2009

CERN openlab / Intel spring 2009 multi-threading and parallelism workshop's registration is open!

21 Apr 2009

The April Technical Meeting discusses CINBAD project update and the first results of Intel® Xeon® 5500 (Nehalem) benchmarks

The March Technical Meeting presents an update on activities for technical database services and the storage IOs of Oracle

The February Minor Review Meeting discusses Atom N330 processor and perfmon in Linux kernel

Computer Architecture and Performance Tuning Workshop's registration is open!

2008

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The December Minor Review Meeting receives updates on the CINBAD project, the MSG project and the Oracle Exadata solution

openlab fellow, Havard Bjerke, delivers a tutorial on SIMD programming during the ALICE workshop

CERN openlab is continuing activities on the teaching front

The November Minor Review Meeting  covers the new server configuration, new track finding algorithms for ALICE, and memory reduction when using process forking

Intel and CERN openlab communicate on the tools and techniques to increase data centre power efficiency 

The October Minor Review meeting discusses Oracle Exadata and Performance Monitoring Data Analysis

openlab fellow Daniel Rodrigues delivers talk on openlab Grid monitoring work

openlab technical team and partner scientist deliver training at the CERN School of Computing 2008

Major Review Meeting Major unveils program of work with new partner Siemens

Monthly Technical Meeting

Quarterly Review Meeting

2007

Technical  news

Quarterly Review Meeting

Virtualization performance and processor evolution reviewed in the September Monthly meeting

Monthly Technical Meeting reviews Grid activities in openlab

Monthly Technical Meeting discusses Grid Monitoring and Multicore future

Monthly Technical Meeting focuses on Databases

Monthly Review Meeting Unveils first results of TOP500 run, discusses Project Sheets

Quarterly Review Meeting presents plans for Networking R&D with HP ProCurve

2006

Technical  news

Intel launches Quad Core Technology in Europe

Pat Gelsinger -Senior V.P. at Intel Corporation- visits CERN, gives Computing Colloquium

Intel visit

Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo

Visit from Intel

LCG-2_7_0 for Intel Itanium 2 released

2005

Technical  news

openlab expands with first eight-CPU server

LCG-2_6_0 for Intel Itanium 2 released

Opencluster used for CFD simulations

4th openlab Board of Sponsors Meeting takes place at CERN on July 6, 2005

'Industrializing the GRiD' workshop to take place 13th-14th June 2005

openlab servers successfully used in service challenge

Number of Intel Itanium 2 nodes in LHC Computing Grid is growing continually

Article on 10Gb experiments over long distances

2004

Technical  news

High Speed Data Transfer between CERN and CalTech

Gelato Federation Meeting

Press release: CERN openlab adds a new dimension to Grid computing

Third annual meeting of the openlab Board of Sponsors

Itanium® 2 systems are now part of the Test Grid

openlab receives processor upgrade

2003

Technical  news

Openlab receives additional network and computing power

Successful  second openlab Thematic workshop on Fabric Management

openlab receives eight Intel Madison processors

First results of opencluster 10Gbps challenge: 755 MB per second over 10 km fiber!

First openlab Thematic workshop starts at CERN, focuses on Storage solution

First 10GbE cards delivered to CERN, will allow immediate high bit-rate tests