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."

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Re:Fuck Roland

[jemfinch]

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