Computação em grid como ferramenta essencial na investigação da estrutura do universo

Abstract

Driven by curiosity and by the human need to understand the world around us, physics has generated a broad range of demands for new technologies. One example of such demands is handling the data produced by large particle accelerators, such as the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) recently built by the European laboratory Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Physics). Grid computing consists of a decentralized federated system of computing resources which are interconnected and share common objectives. Grid computing is an excellent example of a product created by this demand, which will certainly have dozens – maybe thousands – of applications in a near future.