Inside Cern's atom-smasher number-cruncher

The Cern internet exchange is one of the oldest in the world. The Cern Internet Exchange Point (CIXP), located in the computer centre, was the point through which the first pan-European internet backbone was established in 1989. It is also part of Geant, a multi-gigabit pan-European data-communications network, used specifically for research and education purposes. CIXP will act as the conduit for the grid-computing project data.