HWC S02E03: LHC and the Grid - The world is our calculator

Air date: 
7 February, 2013

With around 25 Petabytes (25 million Gigabytes) of data generated per year from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, global computing is the only way to store, distribute and analyse this mountain of information. The world is our calculator! In this Hangout, IT experts from CERN and the LHC experiments answer questions on the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project - a global collaboration of more than 170 computing centres in 36 countries. What happens to the data when it leaves the LHC? How does this global calculator work?

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