This is looking strange, because Particle Physics is one of very few areas, where hardware is not magnitudes cheaper than software. I mean not only computer ha

This is looking strange, because Particle Physics is one of very few areas, where hardware is not magnitudes cheaper than software. I mean not only computer hardware, which is also non cheap, but budgets for experimental hardware, which not all countries can handle. So, if program is really important, they could rearrange budgets and give some finances for software.