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RHIC Computing Facility Crosses the 1 PB Mark

Posted by michael on from the infoglut dept.

Martin writes "Brookhaven National Lab's RHIC Computing Facility (RCF) announced yesterday that the amount of data from the physics experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) crossed the 1 PetaByte mark. A mail that was sent around to the RCF users contained a GUI screen shot (which is removed from the mail archive) that showed the number of MegaBytes transferred as 1,000,400,143. The RCF web pages have some pictures of the tape silos that hold the data. RHIC and the experiments have been discussed on ./ a few times, look here, here, and here."

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  1. Weeee by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "RHIC Computing Facility Crosses the 1 PB Mark"

    Tomorrow's story:

    "RHIC Computing Facility Slashdotted, Crosses the 2 PB Mark." Some will complain of dupes, others will say RTFA.

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  2. The obvious: by jtosburn · · Score: 2, Funny

    showed the number of MegaBytes transferred as 1,000,400,143

    That's a lot of copies of MyDoom!!!!!!

    With apologies....I'll STFU now.

  3. Interresting take from my co-worker by Captain+Rotundo · · Score: 3, Funny

    We are but a few miles from BNL, so I thought I'd mention this interresting fact to my co-workers, one of them said "I thought a 'peda-bite' had something to do with Michael Jackson" :)

  4. Time to FIGHT! by yardbird · · Score: 3, Funny

    We all must FIGHT Wal-mart and the other proponents of RHIC! This 1 PB milestone is yet another erosion of our privacy and will not.. what? Oh, never mind.

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  5. Compression by DarkHand · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone needs to introduce them to a little company called PKWare...

  6. Big Deal by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's still only half the porn on the internet.

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