The shoot protons through the accelerator, everything goes as planned. What is often forgotten: In the background are countless computer busy to process the data produced by the detectors. And this enormous task is for the most part not even addressed at Cern: 80 percent of the computing power of computers around the world provided that through a so-called " Grid " are connected to the CERN. Wolfgang von Rueden (Left), head of CERN's IT department explains in conversation with Martin Heule the dimensions of the computer hardware and data.
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