Tomorrow the first attempt will be made to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) . You can follow the action on CERN’s LHC First Beam webpage. Dealing with the information that will be created by the collider is a mammoth task. The LHC Grid Fest will endeavor to handle the job:

When the Large Hadron Collider comes into operation in September 2008, it will begin to produce an expected 15 million gigabytes of data every year, enough information to create a 21-kilometre-high stack of CDs annually.

On 3rd October, the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid consortium announce 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.