Computing: the World Wide Web CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee
developed the World Wide Web to give particle physicists a tool
to communicate quickly and effectively with globally dispersed
colleagues at universities and laboratories. The Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center had the first Web site in the United States.
Fermilab had the second. Few other technological advances in
history have more profoundly affected the global economy and
societal interactions than the Web. Computing: the Grid Particle
physics experiments generate unprecedented amounts of data that
require new and advanced computing technology to analyze. To
quickly process this data, particle physicists pioneered the
construction of low-cost computing farms, a group of servers
housed in one location, more than two decades ago. Today, the
Data Grid is the newest particle physics computing tool and
allows physicists to manage and process their enormous amounts
of data across the globe by combining the strength of hundreds
of thousands of individua