Inside Cern's atom-smasher number-cruncher 
Published: 06 Oct 2008 16:00 BST
The computer centre at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva is used to store and process data from physics research, notably for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment. The computer centre is also used to provide mail, web, database and desktop support, campus networking and administrative services for the Cern labs.










