At Fermilab, particle physicists embark on a mission of discovery to learn what the universe is made of and how it works. Fermilab builds and operates the facilities that particle physicists need to do cutting-edge research, and develops new accelerator technology for the experiments of the future.
Fermilab is the largest U.S. laboratory for research in particle physics and is second only to CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in the world. About 2,500 scientific users, scientists from universities and laboratories throughout the U.S. and around the world, use Fermilab for their research.
To uncover the mysteries of the universe, scientists use accelerators to smash beams of particles together at incredibly high energies. The highest-energy collider in the world is the Fermilab Tevatron. Because of the complex nature of their experiments, particle physicists conduct their research in collaboration with large laboratories like Fermilab. Founded in 1967, Fermilab is located in Batavia, Illinois and operated by the Fermi Research Alliance.
Grids at Fermilab
FermiGrid supports the activities of the Fermilab users, including the particle physics, neutrino and astrophysics experiments. Through this local grid infrastructure, Fermilab serves as the single largest contributor of computing resources to the Open Science Grid, a consortium supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation that provides computing power to all scientific communities.
As the host of a Tier-1 center, Fermilab contributes to the LHC computing grid the use of 4,000 processing cores from 1,100 machines with 2.5 million gigabytes of disk storage and 4.7 million gigabytes of tape storage. Fermilab along with U.S. universities provides more than 30 percent of the computing capacity for the CMS experiment at the LHC.
Fermilab is the largest U.S. laboratory for research in particle physics and is second only to CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in the world. About 2,500 scientific users, scientists from universities and laboratories throughout the U.S. and around the world, use Fermilab for their research.
To uncover the mysteries of the universe, scientists use accelerators to smash beams of particles together at incredibly high energies. The highest-energy collider in the world is the Fermilab Tevatron. Because of the complex nature of their experiments, particle physicists conduct their research in collaboration with large laboratories like Fermilab. Founded in 1967, Fermilab is located in Batavia, Illinois and operated by the Fermi Research Alliance.
Grids at Fermilab
FermiGrid supports the activities of the Fermilab users, including the particle physics, neutrino and astrophysics experiments. Through this local grid infrastructure, Fermilab serves as the single largest contributor of computing resources to the Open Science Grid, a consortium supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation that provides computing power to all scientific communities.
As the host of a Tier-1 center, Fermilab contributes to the LHC computing grid the use of 4,000 processing cores from 1,100 machines with 2.5 million gigabytes of disk storage and 4.7 million gigabytes of tape storage. Fermilab along with U.S. universities provides more than 30 percent of the computing capacity for the CMS experiment at the LHC.