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Bienvenue sur le site LCG-France - Welcome to the LCG-France website
LCG-France is the french contribution to the international collaboration building the worldwide LHC computing grid. The project is dedicated to the LHC computing and was launched in 2004 by High Energy actors to
- provide a funded Tier-1 centre and an Analysis facility in CC-IN2P3, Lyon supporting the 4 LHC experiments
- promote the emergence of Tier-2 and even Tier-3 centres with help of Regional funding agencies, Universities…
- establish collaboration with others Tier 1 and Tier 2 sites
- and make agreements on International MoU commitments with WLCG project
You will find here more information on what the LHC is.
News and Events
- Upcoming events marking LHC start-up
- 10 September: The first attempt to circulate a beam in the LHC will be made on 10 September at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV). This historical event will be webcast through http://webcast.cern.ch, and distributed through the Eurovision network. See http://www.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam for further details.
- 3 October: CERN will host the LHC Grid Fest, a celebration of the LHC Computing Grid, a global computing grid designed to handle 15 million gigabytes of LHC-related data every year. The day will feature presentations, demonstrations, tours of the CERN Computer Centre and more. See http://www.cern.ch/lcg/lhcgridfest for more details.
- 21 October: CERN will host the Official Inauguration of the LHC with representatives of CERN member and observer States.
- Software engineer - CDD-HN-LCGFrance-0802-EN -- -- dead line 30/09/2008 / Ingénieur de développement - CDD-HN-LCGFrance-0802-FR-- candidatures jusqu'au 30/09/2008
- 1st of July 2008, the new LHC-France web site: La place de la France dans le plus grand accélérateur de particules du monde, le LHC
- New Tier-2 site in LCG-France family: IPHC (Strasbourg) by LCG-France ! (26/06/08)
Funding Organizations
The LCG-France project is funded by the organizations below.
