2008, the LHC and PIC

So, this is 2008. The year that the LHC will (finally) start colliding
protons at CERN. At PIC we are deploying one of the so-called Tier-1 centres: large computing centres that will receive and process the data from the detectors online. There will be eleven of such Tier-1s worldwide. Together with CERN (the Tier-0) and almost 200 more sites (the Tier-2s) these will form one of the largest distributed computing infrastructures in the world for scientific purposes: The LHC Computing Grid.
So, handling the many-Petabytes of data from the LHC is the challenge, and the LCG must be the tool.