15 petabyte network and an atom smasher
Just out of college I worked in business systems over at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, (my pop has been there for 35 or so years) so I've always had an interest in high energy physics. The Large Hadron Collider at Cern is a montrous operation, thought this article was pretty amazing.
15 petabyte network and an atom smasher
Enough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network 1,000 times faster than home broadband. Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fiber-optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, being switched on in August at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG), a super-high-bandwidth network, will channel about 15 petabytes--15 million gigabytes--of data from the LHC to about 5,000 scientists in 500 institutions every year for at least 10 years.
CNET.com
15 petabyte network and an atom smasher
Enough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network 1,000 times faster than home broadband. Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fiber-optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, being switched on in August at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG), a super-high-bandwidth network, will channel about 15 petabytes--15 million gigabytes--of data from the LHC to about 5,000 scientists in 500 institutions every year for at least 10 years.
CNET.com
posted by PC at 4:07 PM
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