While successive experiments started this morning in the Large Hadron Collider , turn on the spotlight here and there on the technologies adopted by CERN to handle the huge amount of data coming from the monumental particle accelerator. For the analysis of this information has been made ​​a massive distributed computing network called " LHC Computing Grid "(LCG). This is a network of 60 thousand servers connected together and located in 11 among research institutions and universities around the world. LCG is in turn linked perpetually with other 150 teams of scientists who can tap into real-time data produced by the algorithm of distributed computing. No wonder that for this massive infrastructure is an operating system was adopted ad-hoc, self-produced a Linux distribution called " Scientific Linux CERN ", now the next release 5.2 (SLC52).