Oracle Magazine, Jan/Feb 2018
CERN IT department members left to right Manuel Martin Marquez Luca Canali Artur Wiecek Eric Grancher Ana Lameiro Fernandez Katarzyna Dziedziniewicz Wojcik and Eva Dafonte Perez pose in a CERN data center where vast amounts of data are stored data that helps to answer fundamental questions about the universe ORACLE MAGAZINE JANUARY FEBRUARY 2018 48 Colliding Particles Exploding Data at CERN Among the organizations taking advantage of Oracle Database 12c capabilities is CERN the European Organization for Nuclear Research Located near Geneva Switzerland the particle physics lab seeks to explore fundamental questions about the structure of the universe becoming famous along the way for inventing the World Wide Web in 1989 To study particles and how they interact CERN uses the worlds largest scientific instrument the Large Hadron Collider LHC The LHC accelerates particles to near the speed of light creating collisions that help scientists gain a better understanding of
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