Re:An exabyte of disk storage at CERN
by LordShredda on Saturday September 30, 2023 @10:23PM
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How would you even fill that? Particle collisions might generate a lot of data, but I find it hard to imagine it would need that much
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Re:An exabyte of disk storage at CERN
by SturgeonsLaw on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:11AM
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Installing Ark: Survival Evolved will just about get you there
Re:An exabyte of disk storage at CERN
by fecal_henge on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:03AM
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Speaking as someone who designs hardware to process data streaming off just one of the detectors on one of the experiments at the LHC, its hard to imagine that is enough!
As a computational physicist, I often hear people in industry talk about "big data" and then laugh when I understand the amount of data they're talking about. I once accidentally wrote a hundred TiB to tape as part of a side project.
CERN is on a whole other level.
"Big data" used to be thrown around a lot. It's not "big data" if it could fit on any kind of single PC available commercially.
The raw LHC data is already filtered down to a tiny percentage (<0.1% IIRC) using several levels of hardware and then software triggers to make sure only the interesting stuff is recorded. So LHC could very easily fill several orders of magnitude more than this.