World’s Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites

Scientific Computing, accessed 28 Mar 2005 British physicists and computer scientists are playing a key role in facing one of the biggest computing problems in the world — how to process the massive data volumes expected from the world's biggest particle physics experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at CERN in Switzerland. When the LHC becomes operational in 2007,it will produce Petabytes (millions of Gigabytes) of data. To manage this, researchers have been creating a Grid to distribute the processing and storage of data around the world. Read the article