CERN is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory situated in Geneva Switzerland.
Beginnig this year 2007 CERN will start running a new generation particle accelerator. The new accelerator is named LHC, which stands for Large Hadron Collider. One of the main objectives of the experiment is to prove the existence of Higg’s boson.
To find such a small particle amazing amounts of data needs to be recorded and analyzed. To manage the data analysis several data Grid projects have been initiated. The amount of data produced by the new accelerator is foreseen to be in the scale of tens of PetaBytes.
CASTOR infrastructure developed at CERN is currently used to manage more than 6 PetaBytes (6 Million GigaBytes) of information. The architecture comprises fuctionalities from databases to massive tape storages.
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