Computing requirements for high energy physics experiments at the LHC collider

In this article the requirements for the future experiments of elementary particle physics are discussed. The nature of physics phenomena expected at the LHC collider at CERN leads to an unprecedented scale of the computing infrastructure for the data storage and analysis. The possible solution is based on the distributed computing model, and is presented within the context of the global unification of the computer resources as proposed by the GRID projects. (7 refs).