A data center in Budapest will help process particle-research data generated by the world’s largest particle accelerator.

German telco Deutsche Telekom announced Wednesday that it will provide a 100GbE link between the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in Geneva, operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and a Budapest data center operated by the Wigner Research Center for Physics.

David Foster, deputy head of IT at CERN, said the contract with Deutsche Telekom strengthened an already existing relationship. The company has been a long-standing member of the CERN Internet Exchange Point (CIXP), a 20-plus-year-old European Internet exchange, and a regular provider of regular Internet connectivity services to CERN.

“The state-of-the-art Deutsche Telekom 100-gigabits-per-second circuit between CERN and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Budapest will not only expand our physics processing capabilities, but will also allow us to refine our business continuity strategy,” Foster said.

The Hungarian data center has become part of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid, which connects more than 10,000 researchers around the world to CERN’s computing infrastructure and gives them access to data from LHC experiments. The grid connects more than 170 data centers in 36 countries, processing the 25 petabytes of data the collider on the Franco-Swiss border generates every year.

The largest concentration of these data centers is in Europe, but there are also many in North America. Some are in South and East Asia, as well as Australia and South America.