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Each image is one gigabyte. With a few hundred exposures per night. Producing terabytes of data per day. For a petascale data set in total mapping 300M+ galaxie
by ArtWomb 5y ago
Each image is one gigabyte. With a few hundred exposures per night. Producing terabytes of data per day. For a petascale data set in total mapping 300M+ galaxies.
Roughly the same data set size as the recently released cubic millimeter electron microscopy volume of human brain connectome ;)
A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.29.446289v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.29.446289v1
- wiz21c 5y agoThat's why as a 50 years old dude I study data science. Those of us old enough have grown on basis of microscopic data size. Time to adapt :-) I for one welcome our new googol-sized-datasets overlords.
- joshuaheard 5y agoI was wondering why an article about a map did not include a picture of the map.