ABSTRACT
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, and in Europe at the Geneva laboratory of CERN, COl1seil Ellropeen pOllr Recherche Nlicleaire, or the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, which was a collaboration of thirteen West European nations. Both machines were identified as 30-GeV (giga electron volts). The Serpukhov machine calculated at 76-GeV had more than double proton energy of the US and European units and would remain a world leader until 1972 when a 400-GeV unit was installed in Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois. The Serpukhov machine was operated in conjunction with a BESM-6 Soviet computer and a specially Coeom-authorised IBM 1800. The British were to install two ICL 1906A computers, each linked to an ICL 1903A for the handling of increased capacity. The combination of these several computers would amount collectively to slightly less than the processing power of the CERN machine. An agreement between Serpukhov and CERN had been signed in 1967 and joint experiments were conducted in which US scientists also joined. CERN was to collaborate in dealing with problems of data processing and publication of results of joint experimcnts. ICL were to provide sixty teleprinters as control terminals and some video display units.
