Chips, the Universe and Everything

Each of the blobs on the map is a computing centre working on CERN experimental data sent out over two grids, EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-SciencE) and the Open Science Grid (OSG). At full tilt, these will bring together a hundred centres in a two-tier structure, capable of absorbing and analysing 10 gigabits per second continually. It would also be most excellent for sharing movies, although CERN is sternly insistent that no such nonsense will ever take place.