From the Web to the Grid: Exhibition Science Bringing Nations Together

The World Wide Web, invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989, was CERN's response to a new wave of scientific collaborations, bigger and more distributed than ever before. Now, as CERN gears up for the LHC, the computing requirements of the LHC experiments are unprecedented. Meeting the LHC computing challenge will require collaborative work by many people around the world over the coming years. The laboratory aims to tackle the LHC computing challenge by involving computer scientists, scientists from other disciplines and, above all, industry. Their combined efforts could well produce solutions as important in the next ten years as the Web has been in the last.