Worldwide LHC Computing Grid

The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) is a global collaboration of computer centres. It was launched in 2002 to provide a resource to store, distribute and analyse the 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of data generated every year by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

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Serbia joins the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid

On 9 December, CERN and Serbia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Serbian State Data Centre. The centre will become a Tier1 member of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), the highest level of collaboration within the Grid

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Computing
14 December, 2023
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14 December, 2023

Lebanon inaugurates the computer servers donated by CERN

The computing equipment, which will shore up scientific capacities in Lebanon, was inaugurated in the presence of the country’s Prime Minister and a CERN/CMS delegation

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Computing
25 May, 2023

CERN computer servers set sail for Lebanon

On 14 January, CERN representatives met with a Lebanese delegation to celebrate the shipping of donated computer servers to Lebanon following a fundraising campaign for the High-Performance Computing for Lebanon (HPC4L) project

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At CERN
14 January, 2022
At CERN
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14 January, 2022

Bringing new life to ATLAS data

The updated version of the ATLAS analysis software will reprocess all ATLAS collision data from Run 2 over the coming months

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Experiments
22 October, 2021
Experiments
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22 October, 2021

CERN data storage gets ready for Run 3

Extensive consolidation of the data storage infrastructure culminated in 2020 when the new CERN Tape Archive software (CTA) entered production

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Computing
23 September, 2020
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23 September, 2020

CERN and the LHC experiments’ computing resources in the global research effort against COVID-19

As time moves on and the community gets organised, new computing-related solutions and collaborations unfold to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic

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Computing
02 September, 2020

Processing LHC data

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