Scientists from around eighty countries have just switched what is known to the public as the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. The two billion dollar LHC(Large Hadron Collider) project is conducted by the CERN(European Organisation for Nuclear Research – a particle physics laboratory based in Geneva, Switzerland. ) and could explain scientists the mass, gravity and ‘dark matter’.
Cern was founded in 1954 and it is now funded by 20 European member states, and is currently the workplace of 2600 full-time employees, as well as around 8,000 scientists and engineers.
CERN was also involved in the development of the Internet today because Tim Berners-Lee was working on a program for storing information using random associations, which he called Enquire and was the conceptual basis for the global hypertext project proposed by him in 1989(WWW).
The IT department at Cern is creating the world’s largest computing grid – known as the LHC Computing Grid – for the Big Bang project.
The LHC Computing Grid (LCG) went live in June 2008, pooling the processing power of around 100,000 CPUs worldwide.
It will process information at a rate of 1gbps, to cope with the massive outpouring of data that will come from the LHC particle accelerator.
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