Impressive Early Performance by CERN's LHC Grid
Follow @infoworldTodd Weiss from Computerworld posted an interesting write-up today about impressive early data transfer results in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Grid effort.
According to Weiss, "The 100,000-PC grid will help CERN and a worldwide network of researchers and scientists harness a huge amount of computing power and storage capacity that it couldn't build on its own. The grid will also be able to store some 15 petabytes of data -- 15 million gigabytes -- annually, and will have to be continually expanded because the data will have to be continuously preserved for analysis."
In other words -- that's a heck of a lot of data that's going to be transferred on an ongoing basis for the LHC. No doubt large enterprises that grapple with management of huge data sets should keep an eye on CERN's Grid efforts. After all, enterprise data management has more in common with research / science data management than people tend to realize.
