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LHC Data Generation Expected To Scale Up To 400PB a Year

Posted by Soulskill on from the heading-toward-exascale dept.

DW100 writes: Cern has said it expects its experiments with the Large Hadron Collider to generate as much as 400PB of information per year by 2023 as the scope of its work continues to expand. Currently LHC experiments have generated an archive of 100PB and this is growing by 27PB per year. Cern infrastructure manager Tim Bell, speaking at the OpenStack Summit in Paris, said the organization is using OpenStack to underpin this huge data growth, hoping it can handle such vast reams of potentially universe-altering information.

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  1. Compared to Facebook by pmontra · · Score: 3, Informative

    To put this in perspective, Facebook states to be generating 4 PB per day, so 3.6 times more than the LHC. Does anybody know about anything generating more data than that?