An Investigation into Transport Protocols and Data Transport ...

Chapter 2
High Energy Particle Physics
The high energy physics experiments in the forthcoming decades will provide
insight into the nature of fundamental interactions, structures and symmetries
that define space-time.
The application of computer processing and information retrieval for such
large-scale science projecys has lead scientists to an increasing need to transfer
petabytes of data across the Internet in order to realise the goal of world
wide collaborative science.
This Chapter looks into one such application where there is an increasing
demand to meet the requirements of transferring many petabytes of data
per second across geographically distributed locations. The network requirements
of new High Energy Physics experiments are described here, taking
the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment as an example.
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