CERN Collider To Trigger a Data Deluge 226
slashthedot sends us to High Productivity Computing Wire for a look at the effort to beef up computing and communications infrastructure at a number of US universities in preparation for the data deluge anticipated later this year from two experiments coming online at CERN. The collider will smash protons together hoping to catch a glimpse of the subatomic particles that are thought to have last been seen at the Big Bang. From the article: "The world's largest science experiment, a physics experiment designed to determine the nature of matter, will produce a mountain of data. And because the world's physicists cannot move to the mountain, an army of computer research scientists is preparing to move the mountain to the physicists... The CERN collider will begin producing data in November, and from the trillions of collisions of protons it will generate 15 petabytes of data per year... [This] would be the equivalent of all of the information in all of the university libraries in the United States seven times over. It would be the equivalent of 22 Internets, or more than 1,000 Libraries of Congress. And there is no search function."
60% (Score:5, Funny)
And 60% of it will be porn.
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re: 15 petabytes? (Score:2, Funny)
On the other hand, I'm sure it will be available on some torrent soon.
Neutrinos (Score:5, Funny)
You know with the right sort of particle accelerator you could send messages straight through the Earth and save a heap of latency.
GASP (Score:3, Funny)
22 Internets per year? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:60% (Score:5, Funny)
See the hottest collisions on the web! Watch as innocent particles get ripped apart, revealing their inner quarks! See protons get exploited and penetrated in their luscious gluons!
Re:Is there a danger or isn't there? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, yeah, but the probability is about the same as that of you generating a small black hole by clapping your hands together really hard.
Gaaa aaaaa aaaaaaa (Score:4, Funny)
Physics locker room.
Re:22 Internets per year? (Score:2, Funny)
Too much, and that's why we should pay the good companies all our hard earned cash to drill giant tubes for all our torrents, MP3s, smut and VoIP calls. Or at least, wasn't that what they were arguing for?
I predict the end of the universe (Score:5, Funny)
Okay... maybe not, but if they ever did put this data in the LoC, the effort required to re-factor all the LoC based measurements would bankrupt the world. And the confusion that goes on while this re-factoring is happening will surely crash at least one probe into Mars, where the English have used the new LoC units and the Americans will have used the old LoC units.
Re:22 Internets per year? (Score:3, Funny)
OTOH owning the harddrives capable of holding this much data gives you about 730 kilometers of e-penis.
Bush and his internets (Score:2, Funny)
Re:OT: The size of the internet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Never mind the data (Score:3, Funny)
That's a LOT of data (Score:2, Funny)
Umm, question. Is this BEFORE or AFTER time stops?
Re:Too much for the 'Net (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 (Score:1, Funny)
Re:So.. (Score:2, Funny)
Don't be daft. Everyone here at UU knows that the sound of one hand clapping is 'cl-'
Re:Neutrinos (Score:5, Funny)
It's called the "Death Star" project, and we've been having a hell of a time with the receiver...
Re:Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sorry, how much is that in Cessna 172's again?
Re:OT: The size of the internet (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No Search Function (Score:5, Funny)
Buy books about Bosons at Amazon.com
Re:60% (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Think for a moment (Score:3, Funny)
22 Internets? (Score:2, Funny)
Re: 15 petabytes? (Score:4, Funny)
22 Internets (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Too much for the 'Net (Score:3, Funny)