CERN Collider To Trigger a Data Deluge

[Angstrom]

Courtesy of Slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/05/22/009216.shtml

"The world's largest science experiment, a physics experiment designed to determine the nature of matter, will produce a mountain of data. And because the world's physicists cannot move to the mountain, an army of computer research scientists is preparing to move the mountain to the physicists... The CERN collider will begin producing data in November, and from the trillions of collisions of protons it will generate 15 petabytes of data per year... [This] would be the equivalent of all of the information in all of the university libraries in the United States seven times over. It would be the equivalent of 22 Internets, or more than 1,000 Libraries of Congress. And there is no search function."

TFA: http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1572567.html

(seems to be suffering from the /. effect atm though)

 

[hj2k_x]

That is a lot of data...

 

[Angstrom]

That is a lot of data...

And how! How they're going to manage it and back it up regularly as it grows is going to be a daunting task.

Time to get into the backup tape business!

 

[hj2k_x]

Courtesy of Slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/science/07/05/22/009216.shtml

Interesting discussion here as to just how big the internet is and how one should quantify it...

 

[Angstrom]

Interesting discussion here as to just how big the internet is and how one should quantify it...

Yup. Those discussions often make my ears bleed though

 

[Darth Garth]

I hope they don't open a black hole .

 

[Tux]

Gawd... All that data... And no search function. Glad I dont have to go through it.
It's just an evil plot by storage media companies to make money!

 

[Moederloos]

Offsite backups - with Telkom links?

 

[Tux]

3gb caps?

 

[cyghost]

WoW thats a lot of data.. pity the smuck who has to sift through it all to make sense of it.

I was at a LAN the weekend and we shared 22 TerraBytes. I was amazed. I thought that was a lot. This takes the cake, doesn't it?

EDIT: have you guys seen this Pretty fast ey?

 

[TooFastTim]

Interesting. I have to visit CERN later this year.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Glad I'm not part of the data storage personnel...

 

[Xarog]

I hope they don't open a black hole .

Won't matter if they do; such a singularity would be way too small to have any noticable effect and would anyway disintegrate in a matter of moments when it loses too much energy to sustain itself.

And to perhaps ease your concerns : if the entire earth was turned into a black hole we'd still only experience 1g of force from it if we were as far away from it as the surface of the earth is from the centre of the earth.

Or to put it another way, such a small singularity isn't going to exert enough gravitational force to draw more atoms inward.

 

[sofi]

I will also be at CERN at the end of the year, it will be interesting to say the least