During the fourth phase (2012-2014) addressed new topics crucial to the CERN scientific programme, such as cloud computing, business analytics, the next generation of hardware, and security for the myriads of network devices.
On the 8th and 9th of May, the CERN openlab Board of Sponsors gathered at CERN to officially close phase III of the collaboration, and to launch its fourth phase, which will run through 2012 to the end of 2014.
CERN developed their 'Grid' before the world wide web took off. Maria and Andrzej explain how it does a lot more than just share the reams of data the Large Hadron Collider collects.
The Header Generator module is used to packetize the streaming data from the detector’s Front-End electronics before it is sent to the PCs for further processing. The objective is to create a meta header or an index by creating packets out of 100s of small event dataset.
