The Reg HPC: CERN: Build terabit networks or the Higgs gets it! [ Thu May 29 2014]

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*** HPC News ***

Kiwis unplug supercomputer after intrusion
34 Tflops in hackers' hands
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/26/kiwis_unplug_niwa_super_after_intrusion_spotted/

New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
(NIWA) has deployed perhaps the ultimate security device - an RJ 45
plug's locking tab - to protect its 34 Tflops FitzRoy supercomputer
after its security was breached.

The locking tab was employed after the $NZ12.7 million machine,
installed in 2011, was reportedly breached last Thursday night,
according to Fairfax.

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CERN: Build terabit networks or the Higgs gets it!
Particle boffins describe the future they need invented to keep
discovering the universe
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/23/cern_make_terabit_networks_or_well_lose_the_next_higgs_boson/

CERN's openlab has published a document explaining stuff it wants
someone to invent so it can get the most out of the large hadron
collider (LHC) and its other instruments.

The Whitepaper on Future IT Challenges in Scientific Research (PDF) )
sets out the problem, namely that exotic kit was needed to cope with
the petabyte-per-second the LHC creates, so future instruments and
experiments will be hard to run without new innovation.

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