What To Do With 15 Million Gigabytes Of Data
Monday, November 3, 2008 - 10:28
in Physics & Chemistry
When it is fully up and running, the four massive detectors on the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva are expected to produce up to 15 million gigabytes, aka 15 petabytes, of data every year. Computer scientists have now risen to the challenge of dealing with this unprecedented volume of data.