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Odds are, somewhere near you right now, computers are whirring all day and night frantically processing the latest ATLAS data. They’re part of a system called the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid, or just “the Grid,” for short, and without them we’d drown in the data spat out by our detector. So what is the Grid, exactly, and how do we keep it so busy?