| So what is CERN, what is it all about
? CERN is one of this small blue-green planet's leading Physics research
laboratories. Between this lab and the others nature is studied at
it's most basic and fundamental level and the leading questions are answered.
CERN is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. This means
non-military investigation of nuclear physics. The kind of international
co-operation that takes place at the lab isn't completely unique but there
is a certain atmosphere for help from other people that only exists in
a small number of other labs. Against this background of high standards
of academic achievement and a history of the place where some of the technologies
that helped the internet to become what it is today there is now the widespread
use of Linux for particle physics research. If you don't know anything
about particle physics and you want a simple explanation then click on
some of the links below.
CERN is one of the few technical projects which
has its own online newspaper. This
is the CERN Courier. It's well worth having a look at it.
The large scale involvement of CERN with Linux
is quite interesting and it can take a while to take it in. It's
such a huge project. Where
is Linux used. What is it used for ?
There is the
Linux PC clustering project and also the
Linux IA64 project in conjunction with Hewlett-Packard. Linux
is also used by the CERN TH-Division. One of the things that interests
many Linux Users just now is the Beowulf project or sometimes known as
exteme Linux. CERN
has its own extreme Linux project. There is even a CERN Linux
User's Group. If you want to know more about that please click on
the logo at the bottom of the page.
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