Attention all Space Cowboys, scientists at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, where the World Wide Web was created in 1989, are now working on the next level of computer interconnection, called the Grid.As with the Web, the CERN scientists are building the Grid to meet the data-processing needs of a specific project, in this case, the data that will result from the Large Hadron Collider, which will recreate conditions immediately after the Big Bang.The Grid will distribute this data among a network of computers through a system of multiple tiers connected through fiber-optic cables. Data will move from the main laboratory to regional and sub-regional centers to universities and departments and finally to individual researchers.What makes the Grid so revolutionary is that a university researcher, even using a standard PC, would have access to data from the original supercomputers. That much data would overwhelm a computer downloading it from today’s Web.The CERN scientists admit that the Grid is still a project very much under development - the Large Hadron Collider itself is not due to begin work for another five years- but they are very optimistic about its potential.