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Positrons make no sound. But with a little help from the grid, music composer Domenico Vicinanza is giving positrons a voice to lift in song.

As computer chips get smaller and faster, they’re getting hotter and hotter. Typically, almost 40% of a data center’s electricity bill is because of its cooling equipment.

To help reach the exaflop barrier and beyond, some data centers are investing in better cooling than current standard technology. We’ve taken a look at seven promising methods that will help scientific e-infrastructures stay cool.

For the last 40 years, the way that large-scale services, such as global banks, and scientific experiments, such as the LHC at CERN, have been managing their data has been reminiscent of Lyman Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:there's only one tried-and-tested path, a 'yellow brick road', and it's relational databases. But over the last couple of years, some new, non-relational database models have emerged and may represent the next step in the evolution of data management.

How do you make a federated identity system for computing infrastructures that is as secure as the passport system is for air travel?

The Internet society has designated June 8 as World IPv6 day. Google, Facebook and others are piloting a global 24-hour ‘test flight’ of IPv6.

Have you ever wanted to know what it is like to work on particle physics research at CERN? Now, you can: all you need is a PC and an online tool called MINERVA.

"Keep it simple" is the motto of Ilknur Colak, accelerator engineer at CERN and photographer.