Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG): Very Powerful Accelerator
First you had the particle beams injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and now you have the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), which combines over 140 computer centers from 33 countries, this will help manage and analyze over 15 million gigabytes of LHC data every year.
This is basically the biggest challenge of all time and will tackle the biggest data challenge ever in mankind from the earth’s most powerful accelerator. To make this all successful 15 universities and 3 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories combined their power to the huge project.
“Particle physics projects such as the LHC have been a driving force for the development of worldwide computing grids,” said Ed Seidel, director of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyber infrastructure. “The benefits from these grids are now being reaped in areas as diverse as mathematical modeling and drug discovery.”
So what will Grid Computing do for the future? Well in a nutshell it will allow university research groups abroad and at home the ability to fully participate in the LHC project, and of course combining positive collaboration across different scientific departments on many campuses.
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