The Large Hadron Particle Collider

Data Center
During the experiments, CERN's computers will process 15 million gigabytes of data per year. To allow the thousands of scientists scattered around the globe to collaborate on the analysis of the data, tens of thousands of computers located around the world are being harnessed in a distributed computing network called the Grid.

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