140 computer centres from 33 countries join Worldwide LHC Computing Grid

World's biggest computing grid set to process data from Large Hadron Collider

SATURDAY, 04 OCTOBER 2008 00:00 TDI BUREAU

Washington, Oct 4 - The world's largest computing grid is all set to tackle the biggest ever data challenge from the most powerful accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the LHC, the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centres from 33 countries to analyse and manage more than 15 million gigabytes of LHC data every year.

A gigabyte has 1,024 megabytes of information and a single megabyte has one million bytes of information.  read more