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Decoding the Genome: Serious Infrastructure
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is one of the largest genomics data centers in the world. In "The Hum and the Genome," the Scientist writes about the IT infrastructure needed to handle the avalanche of data that researchers have to analyze. With its 2,000 processors and its 300 terabytes of storage, the data center uses today about 0.75 megawatts (MW) of power at a cost of 140,000 per year (about $170K). But the data center will need more than a petabyte of storage within three years, and its yearly electricity bill will reach 500,000 (more than $600K) for about 1.4 MW, enough to power more than a thousand homes. The original article gets all the facts, but this summary contains all the essential numbers."
Rrrrrr ... I love it when you talk dirty
It's an interesting story, which I wanted to see.
The fact that the same person who submitted it also submitted a whole bunch of other stories is besides the point.
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I'll take stories like this (Roland and all) over the consistently boring "Here's what Apple/Microsoft/SCO/Sony/USPTO is doing today!" stories we're inundated with otherwise.
At least this story is interesting. Why does it piss you off so much that someone makes some money off finding this story? If Roland makes some coin because he's bothered to pay attention to news sites I don't read and report interesting articles to a site I do read, by all means, more power to him! I'm glad he's doing the legwork so I don't have to.
Jeremy
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I've suggested an option that would let users filter, but it seems to have been ignored.
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Why does it piss [some people] off so much that someone makes some money off finding this story?
When Jon Katz left they decided to hate Michael Sims. Now Sims is gone so they need a new target. Not that Katz, Sims, offered any great insight or content to slashdot, but the hatred and paranoia against them is beyond reason. That said, I don't much like Piquepaille's site and don't click on his links. But he does offer the service of collecting and collating technology information - a service not much different from slashdot I might add - and clearly, some people find it interesting and worthwhile. The claims of some kickback scheme going on really reek of defamation though. Get some proof or STFU. --M
Using insults and insinuation only serve to make you look bad.
If you want better content, go submit it.
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