Next-Gen Net
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Superfast internet may replace world wide web
The LHC Computing Grid was constructed to handle the massive amounts of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider. It incorporates both private fibre optic cable links and existing high-speed portions of the public Internet, to get data from CERN to academic institutions around the world.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), expected to be completed in August, 2008 at CERN near Geneva, is the largest scientific instrument on the planet. When it begins operations next month, it will produce roughly 15 Petabytes (15 million Gigabytes) of data annually, which thousands of scientists around the world will access and analyse.
The mission of the LHC Computing Project (LCG) is to build and maintain a data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high energy physics community that will use the LHC.
The internet could soon be made obsolete by a new "grid" system which is 10,000 times faster than broadband connections
The distributed computing project LHC@home was started to support the construction and calibration of the LHC. The project uses the BOINC platform to simulate how particles will travel in the tunnel. With this information, the scientists will be able to determine how the magnets should be calibrated to gain the most stable "orbit" of the beams in the ring.
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