CERN Gears Up Its Computers for More Atom Smashing

CERN plans to divide its 4,000 servers (which run about 32,500 processors) into about 35,000 virtual servers by the end of the year and manage the subsequent workflow with the help of software from Platform Computing Corp., in Markham, Ontario. Over the next two or three years the lab could further slice up its servers into as many as 80,000 virtual servers.