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As part of a regular cycle of equipment renewal, the CERN
Computer Centre has just donated 161 retired servers to universities in
Morocco. While the servers may be being retired from the cutting-edge use
needed at CERN, it doesn’t mean they are not still perfectly good for less
demanding uses elsewhere. On 8 March, 161 servers were loaded onto a lorry
bound for Morocco. About half of them will go to build a Tier 2 Grid centre in
Rabat, the capital, while the other half will be distributed to the RUPHE
network of the four main high-energy physics institutes in the country.
“The servers should allow Moroccan scientists, who are
mainly collaborating with the ATLAS experiment, to analyse LHC data at their
home institutions,” says Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General. The shipment is the
realisation of a promise made by CERN back in May 2011 during the “Sharing
knowledge across the Mediterranean” conference.
Link to CERN bulletin
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Prof. Abdeslam Hoummada and CERN DG Rolf Heuer seeing off
the servers on the beginning of their journey to Morocco.
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Rolf Heuer, Frédéric Hemmer, Abdeslam Hoummada, Patrick Fassnacht and Flavio Costa
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