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Storing CERN's Search for God (Particles)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the she-is-in-the-details-or-so-i'm-told dept.

Chris Lindquist writes "Think your storage headaches are big? When it goes live in 2008, CERN's ALICE experiment will use 500 optical fiber links to feed particle collision data to hundreds of PCs at a rate of 1GB/second, every second, for a month. 'During this one month, we need a huge disk buffer,' says Pierre Vande Vyvre, CERN's project leader for data acquisition. One might call that an understatement. CIO.com's story has more details about the project and the SAN tasked with catching the flood of data."

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  1. The mere thought of that much bandwidth... by Khyber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think I just creamed myself. The hardware needed to push that much data must be insane!

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    Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
  2. Too many video games may stunt your growth. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Quote from the Slashdot story, as it is now: "... and the SAN tasked with catching the flood of data."

    I think the correct word, considering the meaning, is "caching".

    "Don't run with scissors" advice: If you play video games too much, it will stunt your growth. People need time to learn about the real world around them, not just a fantasy world. Part of learning about the real world is learning how to communicate with other people.