SDCC News

Members of Brookhaven Lab's Scientific Data and Computing Center (SDCC) were featured in a BNL news feature on collaborative tools and services.

The RACF has been featured in a video produced by Brookhaven National Laboratory.

As of December 11, 2018, the SDCC/RACF has moved our password protected systems and services to a new, unified authentication system.

Eric Lançon, a physicist who has played major roles in computing efforts for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), has been named Director of the Scientific Data and Computing Center at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory.

An insideBIGDATA article, dated 13 Apr 2016, features an interview with RACF director, Michael Ernst, on the facility's role in leveraging AWS spot instances to optimize ATLAS experiment data processing time.

See the article in full in insideBIGDATA.

An Information Week article, dated 2 Feb 2016, cites RACF director, Michael Ernst, as the lead computer scientist for Brookhaven's ATLAS team, on the facility's role in expanding BNL's "compute power for particle research without blowing up its research budget."

See the article in full in Information Week.

The RHIC and ATLAS Computing Facility was cited in a Physics Today article on handling large-scale, time-sensitive data from the LHC.

CERN researchers announced the confirmation of a boson particle that appears to be the elusive, long-anticipated Higgs boson.

CERN is expected to make an announcement related to the discovery of the long-anticipated Higgs boson particle in the early morning of July 4.

The RHIC Computing Facility at BNL's RACF was featured in an article by International Science Grid This Week.