Click image to open video in the zdnet.com site. Image courtesy of ATLAS and EGEE.

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco last year, Derek Mathieson of CERN showed off the ATLAS detector, a six story high, 100-megapixel camera with 100 million data channels. Mathieson explained how the detector uses open-source Java applications to collect data and how grid computing allows the data to be processed.

Watch, learn and enjoy!