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An example is the large hadron colider, where each experiment produces an enormous amount of data from all sensors.
by tomerico 6y ago
An example is the large hadron colider, where each experiment produces an enormous amount of data from all sensors.
- atty 6y agoThat’s not just the LHC - it’s pretty common across high energy physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy, at least. It’s a pretty great fit for the technology. You keep the most recent data on hard drives for analysis, and as new data comes online, the old data goes to tape. You don’t want to get rid of the old data, of course, because you need it for analysis verification and when people come up with new analysis ideas, but the older data naturally gets accessed less and less as time goes on, making tape storage a natural choice.
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- hobojones 6y agoI've been told that NOAA uses tape to stream time series weather data into long-running simulations.