The rise of the Grid and the Large Hadron Collider by University of Bath published on 2016-01-13T11:44:21Z Particle Physicist Dr Glenn Patrick talks about the Large Hadron Collider. Based at CERN, in Geneva, the collider is the largest scientific machine in the world. It started operation in the summer of 2008 and aims to produce colossal amounts of data, which thousands of scientists around the world will analyse to further our understanding of the universe. Genre particle physics