DataGrid aims to enable access to geographically distributed computing power and storage facilities belonging to different institutions.
The ATLAS collaboration is taking part in the development of a global computing Grid for data storage and analysis. When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts to operate, the experiments will produce several million gigabytes of data annually. Via the computing Grid, data from ATLAS and the other LHC experiments will be distributed around the globe and be accessible to all the 5,000 scientists of the LHC experiments located all over the world. The World-wide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project operates the computing Grid for the LHC experiments, including more than 100 different sites. It collaborates and interoperates with other major Grid projects. In 2006 over 20 applications are already running on this infrastructure, including Earth observation, climate prediction, petroleum exploration and drug discovery.
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