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World's largest computing grid now has over 100 Sites According to a PhysOrg.com article, the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) project is now "the world's largest international scientific computing grid," with over 100 sites in 31 countries. The grid, containing "more than 10,000 central processor units (CPUs) and a total of nearly 10 million Gigabytes of storage capacity on disk and tape" will process data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator which will begin operating in 2007. The current status of the LCG project (and a map of participating sites) can be seen here. Even with the grid's record-breaking size, it only has 5% of the computing capacity that the LHC will eventually need. (2005-03-15 13:13:00.0) Permalink Comments [7]