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CERN Officially Unveils Its Grid: 100,000 Processors, 15 Petabytes a Year - Read More

Date Added: October 04, 2008 04:16:04 AM
CERN today officially unveiled the massive computer network that will crunch the enormous amount of data coming from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CERN expects that the LHC will produce around 15 petabytes of data every year. While the LHC was in its planning stages, CERN's IT department decided that the only realistic way to handle this amount of data would be by relying on the then ...

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