LHC Grid Fest
Official commemoration of the start of the analysis of data from the LHC experiments using the Worldwide LHC Computing
On 3 October, the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid
consortium announced the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
(WLCG), an e-infrastructure conceived and designed to support this data
challenge, and with it the research of more than 9000 physicists around
the globe.
"The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid is generating the
technology for tomorrow's science needs. We are witnessing a unique
collaboration on an international scale, with vast potential for
accelerating discoveries in physics and other fields of science."
Ian Bird, WLCG project leader
At CERN the day was split in to two parts: the morning session covers general LHC Computing Grid and grid computing topics, while the afternoon session is more suited to specialist IT press.
Many Tier-1 and some Tier2 collaborating partners held parallel event or connected the event by video conference on the day to celebrate the official Grid Fest. These partners included Amsterdam (Nikhef/SARA), Brookhaven (BNL), Barcelona (PIC), Beijing (IHEP), Bologna (CNAF) , Chicago (FNAL), Karlsruhe (KIT), Dubna (JINR), Lyon (IN2P3), Mumbai (TIFR/BARC), Nordic (NDGF), Melbourne (Uni Melb), Oxford (RAL), Taipei (ASGC), Vancouver (Triumf) and so on.
More information, please refer to LHC Grid Fest Website.
