[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“In 2007, scientists will begin smashing protons and ions
together in a massive, multi-national experiment to understand what
the universe looked like tiny fractions of a second after the Big
Bang. The particle accelerator used in this test will release a
vast flood of data on a scale unlike anything seen before, and for
that scientists will need a computing grid of equally great
capability.“The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which is being built near
Geneva, will be a circular structure 17 miles in circumference. It
will produce data in the neighbourhood of 1.5GB/sec., or as many as
10 petabytes of data annually, 1,000 times bigger than the Library
of Congress’ print collection. The data flows will likely begin in
earnest in 2008…”
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