UNESP Announces the Largest Computational Cluster in Latin America

R$ 3.1 million project will include seven university campuses with 368
servers, capable for 33.3 trillion calculations per second

New: INSPIRE (alpha)

Based on these results, the managements of the labs seized the opportunity to build INSPIRE, a community-based and user-driven next-generation information system, fully exploiting a new technological environment. INSPIRE is being built by combining the successful SPIRES database, curated at DESY, Fermilab and SLAC, with the Invenio digital library technology developed at CERN. INSPIRE will offer the functionalities and quality of service which the HEP user community has grown to expect from SPIRES, an indispensable tool in their daily research workflow. It will develop long-sought features, providing access to the entire corpus of the HEP literature with full-text Google-like search capabilities and enabling innovative text- and data-mining applications.

Why the Higgs will be discovered at LHC and not at Tevatron

The Atlas Eperiment, Episode I, New hope.
The Atlas Experiment, Episode II, The Particles Strike Back

In "A Quantum Diaries Survivor" blog is an excerpt of the latest LHC schedule for the following few months.

In this blog, the question about the spin is clarified.

Symmetry Magazine have a section of short explanations of key particle physics concepts.

Weinberg: los descubrimientos físicos no amenazan a las creencias religiosas

arXiv:0804.2865 (hep-ph)

Luis F. Duque, Diego A. Gutierrez, Enrico Nardi, Jorge Noreña

Today, at the conference NO-VE (IV International Workshop on neutrino oscillations) in Venice, collaboration DAMA/LIBRA claimed to see Dark Matter (DM) interactions in their detector. The results however are controversial