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  1. Corrections and additional info on CERN Collider To Trigger a Data Deluge · · Score: 1

    That's not "High Productivity Computing" Wire... the HPC in "HPC Wire" stands for High-Performance Computing.

    The real story on the ~15PB/year data store is to be found in these two sites:

    This outlines the hardware environment supporting the data (IBM 3584 w/ Ultrium and IBM DS4400):
    ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/GRC 03001USEN/GRC03001USEN.PDF

    This outlines the software environment (layered Tivoli Storage Manager and dCache):
    http://www.dcache.org/manuals/tsm-symposium-2005-p aper.pdf

    Or is it?
    Here, Sun posts how Storagetek supplied the tape storage:
    http://www.sun.com/customers/storage/cern.xml

    The LCG
    Something could certainly be said about their computing backend of going through this data. It's called the LHC LCG (Large Hadron Collider Large Computing Grid) and is described here:
    http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/tdr/LCG_TDR_v1_04.pdf