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Re:Inside CERN's multi-megawatt data center by yigitdemirag on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:40AM (#13622201)
These pictures are taken on the same floor, but just one floor below in this building there is another computer grid, similar to this one but a bit smaller. At that grid, there are, if I remember correctly, more advanced (Intel's xeon, AVX512 etc.) CPU architectures are operating. In the very same floor there are also robotic arms that access offline/long stored hard-drives per user request, which always seems pretty amazing to me. (Disclaimer: I was intern at CERN.)
Re:Inside CERN's multi-megawatt data center by batbomb on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:13AM (#13622931)
Those aren't hard drives, it's HPSS (more specifically, robotic tape library)