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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. Re:PC's? by SnoopJeDi · · Score: 1, Redundant
    From TFA:

    The ALICE experiment grabs its data from 500 optical fiber links and feeds data about the collisions to 200 PCs, which start to piece the many snippets of data together into a more coherent picture. Next, the data travels to another 50 PCs that do more work putting the picture together, then record the data to disk near the experiment site, which is about 10 miles away from the data center.
  2. Re:News for Nerds! by GooberToo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's not real geeky science news until they tell us how many library of congresses it is per second.