News and Events

• 03/10/2008 CERN will host the LHC Grid Fest, a celebration of the LHC Computing Grid, a global computing grid designed to handle 15 million gigabytes of LHC-related data every year. See http://www.cern.ch/lcg/lhcgridfest for more details. See also the symbol of W-LCG grid
• 10/09/2008 The first attempt to circulate a beam in the LHC was made on 10 September at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV). This historical event has been webcasted through http://webcast.cern.ch, and distributed through the Eurovision network. See http://www.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam for further details.
• 01/07/2008 La place de la France dans le plus grand accélérateur de particules du monde, le LHC
• 01/07/2008 LHC-France/Le défi informatique
• 26/06/08 New LCG-France Tier-2 site at IPHC (Strasbourg) for Alice and CMS.
• 01/06/2008 Fairouz Malek and Fabio Hernandez project leaders' mandate renewed for 4 additional years
• 05/03/2008 MoU for LCG-France sites approved by involved parties
• 18/12/2007 IN2P3-LPSC, a new Tier-3 site for Alice and ATLAS is born !
• 10/12/2007 CC-IN2P3 appeared in november 2007 edition of TOP500,the list of the world's fastest supercomputers. (Communiqué de presse IN2P3)
• 09/10/2007 LAPP (Annecy) has been declared in W-LCG MoU as a new french Tier-2 supporting Atlas and LHCb.
• 01/09/2007 CNRS has just created the « Institut des Grilles » (Grids Institute) which federates all its actions concerning computing grids and distributed computing systems.
• 19/03/2007 Talks given on behalf of LCG-France - See and Update Conferences page.
• 30/10/2006 Announcement of the second LCG-France colloquium, March 2007
• 29/09/2006 The new LCG-France webportal is online
• 25/09/2006 The September issue of LCG News contains an article on the LCG-France Tier-1.
• 27/07/2006 Success of first ATLAS data transfers between Lyon and Tiers-2 sites
• 12/07/2006 1rst LCG Bulletin - All issues accessible from here
• 14/04/2006 A new LCG-France wiki is under test.