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Prague hosts CHEP conference

CERN Computer Newsletter, 17.9.2009.

The CHEP series of conferences, held every 18 months, covers the wide field of computing in high-energy and nuclear physics. CHEP'09 was the 17th meeting and attracted 615 attendees from 41 countries. It was held on 23–27...

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What Makes It So Hard?

Physical Review Focus, 4.9. 2009.

A recently developed material is hard enough to scratch diamond but is much easier to make. It's also half as hard along some directions in the crystal as in others. A theory in the Rapid Communications section of the August...

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CHEP '09: clouds, data, Grids and the LHC

CERN Courier, 15.7.2009.

Prague was the setting for CHEP '09, the 17th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Alan Silverman reports on some of the programme's many highlights.

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ESRF welcomes 19th country to the family of members

International research institute ESRF, 10.7.2008.

The Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia have joined in a consortium to become a new Associate Member of the ESRF. In an informal ceremony at the ESRF on 14 August, representatives of the three countries and the ESRF signed the...

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Prague welcomed the 9th ASPERA National Day

Aspera, April 2008.

The 9th ASPERA National day took place in the Faculty and was organized jointly by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (FZU) and the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University of Prague.

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Tier-2: focus on Czech computing centre 'Golias'

CERN Computer Newsletter, 6.6.2005.

The Czech LCG Tier-2 computing centre "Golias" in Prague is one of the LCG's mid-sized sites with just over 200 processors. However, its contributions to the data challenges last year were significant. Golias delivered 6% of the jobs submitted by the...

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