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LHC at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition Summer Exhibition webpage

'Back to the Big Bang? At the Large Hadron Collider' will bring the LHC and LHC-scientists to the Royal Society's Summer Exhibition between Monday the 30th June and Thursday 3rd July 2008. The exhibit includes striking graphics, detector components, the Grid real-time monitor and fact sheets. 'Back to the Big Bang' is aimed at a mixed audience of public, schools and Fellows of the Royal Society. Following the Summer Exhibition the exhibit will be on display at the Oxford Trust (19th July - 29th August). (more....)

(posted 12/06/08)

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UK scientists have launched the next phase of their project to build a computing Grid to analyse data from the world’s largest experiment, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva. Working with colleagues around the world, the GridPP collaboration has successfully built the world’s largest scientific computing Grid, a massive co-ordination of over 50,000 CPUs in 50 countries that has created a virtual supercomputer. The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has extended the project for another three years, which ensures that the expertise built up in the UK will be available for the start of the LHC later this year and for the crucial first years of data taking.

The data crunching and storage capabilities of the Grid are essential to the LHC’s science mission of exploring the fundamental particles and forces of nature. As the LHC begins to generate data scientists will need to sift through petabytes (100,000s of Gigabytes) of data. The UK’s contribution, through GridPP  is 10,000 CPU and 700TB (700,000 Gigabytes) of disk storage at 17 sites in the UK. (more ....)

(posted 29/04/08)