Worldwide LHC Computing Grid

It was designed by CERN to handle the prodigious volume of data produced by Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN was designed to test the existence of the Higgs boson, an important but elusive piece of knowledge that had been sought by particle physicists for over 40 years.

This data is sent out from CERN to thirteen Tier 1 academic institutions in Europe, Asia, and North America,[12] via dedicated links with 10 Gbit/s or higher of bandwidth.

[11] The Tier 1 institutions receive specific subsets of the raw data, for which they serve as a backup repository for CERN.

[16] Distributed computing resources for analysis by end-user physicists are provided by multiple federations across the Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas.