World’s largest computer grid
March 15, the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project announced that its grid no includes over 100 sites in 31 countries. The project was created to process the massive data expected from the the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest particle physics experiment, in CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland. When LHC boots in 2007, it will produce petabytes, millions of gigabytes, of data. The grid will distribute the processing and storage of data to the 100+ sites aroundly the world, mainly universities and research labs, together uniting over 10,000 CPUs. The mission of the grid project is "to build and maintain a data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high energy physics community that will use the LHC."
World’s Largest Computer Grid Surpasses 100 Sites, PPARK.ac.uk