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This headline bears no relation to reality: we're not using all the fiber we've laid, and this isn't a last-mile solution or an ansible. The project page itsel
by shawndrost 19y ago
This headline bears no relation to reality: we're not using all the fiber we've laid, and this isn't a last-mile solution or an ansible. The project page itself (http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/overview.html http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/overview.html) makes it sound like they've built some new computing centers and connected them to terminals at universities: am I missing something?
The most interesting bit here was that CERN will produce 15 petabytes per year, which by my rough calculations is within an order of magnitude of the rest of the internet combined. The last time I thought about petabytes was when I interviewed at Chevron's geological data analysis department.
- shawndrost 19y agoI was way off about the scale of the internet: the US alone currently sends 5 exabytes of traffic per month over IP, or 60000 petabytes per year. Edit: or ~12000, depending on the study. http://www.discovery.org/a/4428 http://www.discovery.org/a/4428, http://www.dtc.umn.edu/mints/home.html http://www.dtc.umn.edu/mints/home.html
- reitzensteinm 19y agoFor a minute there, I was thinking I was 1/500th of the internet. :(
- RK 19y agoTo push this kind of data around, they'll be using Internet2 and ESnet when it hits the US and whatever the Internet2 equivalents are in Europe (Geant2 ?) to push it out. http://www.internet2.edu/science/ http://www.internet2.edu/science/