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Disk Storage Server
CERN-OBJ-IT-014 · Item
Parte de Heritage Collection Test

This model was a disk storage server used in the Data Centre up until 2012. Each tray contains a hard disk drive (see the 5TB hard disk drive on the main disk display section - this actually fits into one of the trays). There are 16 trays in all per server. There are hundreds of these servers mounted on racks in the Data Centre, as can be seen.

CPU Server
CERN-OBJ-IT-022 · Item
Parte de Heritage Collection Test

The CERN computer centre has hundreds of racks like these. They are over a million times more powerful than our first computer in the 1960's. This tray is a 'dual-core' server. This means it effectively has two CPUs in it (eg. two of your home computers minimised to fit into a single box). Also note the copper cooling fins, to help dissipate the heat.

VICI Repeater
CERN-OBJ-IT-129 · Item
Parte de Heritage Collection Test

This is for HIPPI cable connections betzeen 25 Metres and 50 Metres. This repeater was developped at Los Alamos National Laboratories.

NEDDI
CERN-OBJ-IT-130 · Item · 1990-1999
Parte de Heritage Collection Test

NEDDI (Never Ending Destination Interface). It was used for test purposes. It handles the HIPPI hardware handshake regardless of Data. The NEDDI was developed at CERN and manufactured at CES in Geneva.

Slice through an LHC focusing magnet
CERN-OBJ-AC-042 · Item
Parte de Heritage Collection Test

Slice through an LHC superconducting quadrupole (focusing) magnet. The slice includes a cut through the magnet wiring (niobium titanium), the beampipe and the steel magnet yokes. Particle beams in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have the same energy as a high-speed train, squeezed ready for collision into a space narrower than a human hair. Huge forces are needed to control them. Dipole magnets (2 poles) are used to bend the paths of the protons around the 27 km ring. Quadrupole magnets (4 poles) focus the proton beams and squeeze them so that more particles collide when the beams’ paths cross. Bringing beams into collision requires a precision comparable to making two knitting needles collide, launched from either side of the Atlantic Ocean.

LHC bending magnet coil
CERN-OBJ-AC-043 · Item
Parte de Heritage Collection Test

A short test version of coil of wire used for the LHC dipole magnets. The high magnetic fields needed for guiding particles around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring are created by passing 12’500 amps of current through coils of superconducting wiring. At very low temperatures, superconductors have no electrical resistance and therefore no power loss. The LHC is the largest superconducting installation ever built. The magnetic field must also be extremely uniform. This means the current flowing in the coils has to be very precisely controlled. Indeed, nowhere before has such precision been achieved at such high currents. Magnet coils are made of copper-clad niobium–titanium cables — each wire in the cable consists of 9’000 niobium–titanium filaments ten times finer than a hair.