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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
    • 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. See the symbol of W-LCG grid
    • 21 October: CERN will host the Official Inauguration of the LHC with representatives of CERN member and observer States.

Funding Organizations

The LCG-France project is funded by the organizations below.

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