Image courtesy Maximilien Brice/CERN.
Yesterday, the Nobel prize for physics was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the theory of how particles acquire mass. This theory was confirmed through the discovery of the Higgs boson particle at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland.
When the discovery of the particle was first announced on 4 July, 2012, CERN's director general, Rolf Heuer, said: "It's been a global effort, a global success. It has only been possible because of the extraordinary achievements of the experiments, infrastructure, and the grid computing."
Find out more about the role played by grid computing in the links below:
- The Higgs, the history, and the grid
- The next generation of scientific computing
- On the Higgs boson's track: grid computing and EMI empower a step forward in fundamental knowledge
- How grid computing helped CERN hunt the Higgs
- Hear a Higgs through its data
- CERN and the grid: how to handle big data
- Golden opportunities for e-infrastructures at the EGI Community Forum
- Big data, big grid
- CERN data center passes 100 petabytes
- The world is our calculator
- CERN inaugurates data center extension in Budapest
- Interview with Steven Newhouse
- Animation shows Large Hadron Collider data processing
- Hunting for giants
- Virtual atom smasher in LHC@Home
- Discover big data at CERN
