Another donation of computer equipment

On Thursday 27 February, CERN was pleased to donate computer equipment to a physics institute in the Philippines.

 


H.E. Leslie J. Baja and Rolf Heuer.

Following donations of computer equipment to institutes in Morocco, Ghana, Bulgaria, Serbia and Egypt, CERN is to send 50 servers and 4 network switches to the National Institute of Physics at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

CERN’s Director-General Rolf Heuer and the Ambassador of the Philippines to Switzerland and Lichtenstein, H.E. Leslie J. Baja, spoke of their enthusiasm for the project during an official ceremony.

The equipment will be used for various high energy physics research programmes in the Philippines and for the University’s development of digital resources for science.

by Anaïs Schaeffer