CERN Selects Progress Software's Fuse to Search for 'God Particle'

Progress Software Corp., an independent enterprise software provider, announced that the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is using Progress Fuse to run its operational grid activities of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) re-launch which happened this month.

Progress Software noted that its Fuse solution will underpin all grid monitoring systems used in CERN's quest to find the Higgs Boson particle, known as "The God Particle."

"Tasked with bringing together all these operational systems, CERN needed an enterprise-wide messaging framework that would allow for flexibility and integrate systems together," said James Casey, Technical Architect at CERN.

"Progress Software's open source solution offers us the ability to build on what we already have and support our enterprise operations. Much of the development has been funded within the European Union project; 'Enabling Grids for E-sciencE' (EGEE), and released as open source software under the Apache licence."

"Since the Progress open source solutions are also under the Apache licence it makes for a good fit - we can contribute back to it, and all our sites can freely deploy it," he said.

"We needed to find a partner that could help us bring agility and reliability to our IT infrastructure," he said. "We have a pipeline of projects that we need to deliver over the coming years, so this first step lays the foundation for change."

"Progress Software's support and training has ensured a smooth roll out. The bespoke training has enabled all parties to understand the implementation - it has been instrumental in ensuring that everything slotted into place perfectly."

"Organizations like CERN need dependable software: they have a no-failure policy," said Dr. Giles Nelson, Senior Director of Strategy, Progress Software. "CERN's complex systems need to run like clockwork - whether they are sending over accountancy software or whether they could change the universe. For this, CERN can rely on Progress Software."

More Information:

www.fusesource.com

www.progress.com

www.cern.ch

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