Dear All,

     Recognition from SC05 of CERN's role in pushing Grid developments
and in making people aware of that progress..

Cheers, Tony
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Tony Doyle, GridPP Project Leader            Telephone: +44-141-330 5899
Rm 478, Kelvin Building                        Telefax: +44-141-330 5881
Dept of Physics and Astronomy           EMail: [log in to unmask]
University of Glasgow             Web: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~doyle
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Subject: FW: Press release : CERN Awarded High-Performance Computing Prize at
    Supercomputing 2005 

From: Renilde Vanden Broeck 
Sent: 17 November 2005 09:57
Subject: Press release : CERN Awarded High-Performance Computing Prize at 
Supercomputing 2005


PR15.05 
16.11.2005 

CERN Awarded High-Performance Computing Prize at Supercomputing 2005 



Geneva, 16 Nov 2005. CERN* has received the High Performance Computing 
(HPC) Public Awareness Award at a ceremony at Supercomputing 2005 in 
Seattle this week. Supercomputing 2005 is the foremost international 
conference for HPC. The award was presented by HPCwire, the leading HPC 
publication, as one of their 2005 Editors' Choice Awards, a category where 
the winner is determined by a panel of recognized HPC luminaries and 
contributing editors from industry. The award citation is for 'Outstanding 
Achievement in Creating Public Awareness for the Contributions of High 
Performance Computing', and reflects CERN's high visibility in scientific 
computing through its lead role in some of the world's largest and most 
ambitious international Grid projects.

CERN is leading the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project** to build a Grid for 
the huge data storage and processing requirements of the Large Hadron 
Collider (LHC), CERN's new flagship facility, which is scheduled to start 
operation in 2007. The LCG project already involves more than 150 sites in 
over 30 countries worldwide. Four experiments at the LHC (ALICE, ATLAS, 
CMS and LHCb) are expected to produce some 15 Petabytes (millions of 
Gigabytes) each year, which will need the equivalent of 100,000 of today's 
processors to be analysed in search of elusive fundamental particles. CERN 
is also coordinating the EU-funded Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) 
project***, which involves 70 institutional partners in Europe, the US and 
Russia. EGEE aims to provide a production Grid infrastructure for all 
sciences. Already, over 20 applications from scientific domains including 
Earth observation, climate prediction, petroleum exploration and drug 
discovery are running on this infrastructure. CERN has also pioneered a 
novel form of industrial partnership, the CERN openlab, with partners 
Enterasys, HP, IBM, Intel and Oracle, which is testing and validating new 
hardware and software solutions from the partners in CERN's advanced Grid 
environment.

Receiving the prize on behalf of CERN, David Foster, head of CERN's 
network and communications group, said, "this is a significant honour for 
CERN, and I really feel that all our institutional and industrial partners 
in LCG, EGEE and CERN openlab deserve to share in the credit for this. The 
Grid technology that is being deployed for the LHC is inevitably something 
that spans many institutions, all of whom are contributing to the broader 
public awareness concerning this new approach to high performance 
computing." Tom Tabor, publisher of HPCwire, said, "HPCwire's Editors' 
Choice Awards indicate where those on the front lines of both commercial 
and academic high performance computing believe the cutting edge of 
technology lies. An overwhelming number of responses selected CERN for the 
Public Awareness category. This reflects CERN's outstanding image as an 
organization that pushes the boundaries of scientific computing."

Useful Links: 
LCG public website: www.cern.ch/lcg 
EGEE public website: http://public.eu-egee.org/ 
CERN openlab public website: www.cern.ch/openlab 
GridCafé, CERN's public outreach website on Grids: www.gridcafe.org 

For more information contact: 
François Grey 
IT Communications Team 
IT Department, CERN 
Tel +41 22 767 1483 
Fax +41 22 767 1070 
Email: [log in to unmask] 
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Notes for Editor: 

*CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has its 
headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, 
Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, 
Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the 
Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, 
Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, 
Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.

**The mission of the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project is to build and 
maintain a data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high 
energy physics community that will use the LHC. Discovering new 
fundamental particles and analysing their properties with the LHC 
accelerator is possible only through statistical analysis of the massive 
amounts of data gathered by the LHC detectors ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb, 
and detailed comparison with compute-intensive theoretical simulations.

***The EGEE project, funded by the EC initially for two years, aims to 
build on recent advances in grid technology and develop a service grid 
infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours a day. The 
project aims to provide researchers in both academia and industry with 
access to major computing resources, independent of their geographic 
location. The EGEE project identifies a wide-range of scientific 
disciplines and their applications and supports a number of them for 
deployment.