HEP Team Sets New Data-Transfer World Records
2008/12/08

Building on seven years of record-breaking developments, an international team of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)--with partners from Michigan, Florida, Tennessee, Ferm ... [more]

  First beam in the LHC - Accelerating Science
2008/09/24

The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the worlds most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 September 10. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over ... [more]

  Caltech Helps Open the Universe in WorldWide Telescope
2008/05/14

Panoramic images of the sky obtained at Palomar Observatory and by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), plus pointed observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope, form a significant part of Microsoft's [more]

  Caltech One of Five Centers of Excellence for Predictive Science
2008/03/18

With a $17 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the California Institute of Technology becomes one of five new centers of excellence that will focus on the emerging field of predictive science. Predictive science ... [more]

  High-Speed Data Transfer System Garners Outreach Award
2008/03/05

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) has rewarded researchers at the California Institute of Technology for better connecting physicists worldwide. Lead project scientist Harvey Newman, professor of physics at Ca ... [more]

  NSF Award: Development of a Research Infrastructure for the Multithreaded Computing Community Using the Cray XMT Platform
2007/10/10

An award of $994,408 from the National Science Foundation was made to the project entitled "Development of a Research Infrastructure for the Multithreaded Computing Community Using the Cray XMT Platform." The subcontract for Caltech/CA ... [more]

  VOEventNet & Google Sky
2007/08/22

The popular Google Earth program now has a "Sky" feature: images of the entire celestial sphere, showing hundreds of millions of stars, galaxies, and other cosmic wonders. The sky-enriched version of Google Earth is being released today. ... [more]

  US DOE SciDAC Funds $6M Fusion Simulation Prototype Center
2007/05/30

The US DOE Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program awarded $6 million to establish the Center for Plasma Edge Simulation (CPES). The goal of the CPES is to develop a new integrated predictive plasma edge simulation package ... [more]

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