CERN LHC uses largest Grid computing setup
CERN's Big Bang Project is being discussed everywhere and many people had believed that world is gonna end now. A girl in India even committed suicide due to fear.
For whole thing, CERN's IT department setup world's largest computing grid to help scientist to figure out the origin of the Universe.
The grid, which will go live in June, will
pool the processing power of approximately 100,000 CPUs worldwide. It
will process information at a rate of 1gbps, said Francois Grey, head
of Cern's IT communications team.
"About 20% [of CPUs] will be
here at Cern, another 30% will be in 11 major datacentres, and the rest
of the computing power will come from 250 other centres worldwide,"
said Grey.
God!