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Buying those 600,000 drives is probably only 10% of your costs, you need to run a data center if you want to actually use that data. Also analysis pipelines ge
by tetron 11y ago
Buying those 600,000 drives is probably only 10% of your costs, you need to run a data center if you want to actually use that data.
Also analysis pipelines generate intermediate results that are also large, and data is stored with 2x or 3x redundancy. So that 100GB might be more like 300GB once you factor in robust storage and bioinformatics.
- cinquemb 11y agoStill, multiply that by 3, then 1.5 for the overhead… that's still about 5 months of QE :P A post doc at who worked at ATLAS came to visit our lab a couple weeks a go, and just listening to the workflow they have for the events coming off the detectors… and all the BS they have to deal with working in academia… yeah… I'll take that money, erect a CSP system up in Spain and ask them to come do this with me, just to start off with a fun side project :P