High energy & nuclear physics

No single points of failure

The cost of maintenance and upgrades is distributed, since individual institutes fund local computing resources and retain responsibility for these, while still contributing to the global goal

Independently managed resources have encouraged novel approaches to computing and analysis

So-called “brain drain”, where researchers are forced to leave their country to access resources, is reduced when resources are available from their desktop

The system can be easily reconfigured to face new challenges, making it able to dynamically evolve throughout the life of the LHC, growing in capacity to meet the rising demands as more data is collected each year

Provides considerable flexibility in deciding how and where to provide future computing resources

Allows community to take advantage of new technologies that may appear and that offer improved usability, cost effectiveness or energy efficiency