15PB/year is "today". 6 CDs per second is the hoped-for "full speed" future. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Had

15PB/year is "today". 6 CDs per second is the hoped-for "full speed" future. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centers from 33 countries to analyze and manage more than 15 million gigabytes of LHC data every year. However... "When the LHC starts running at full speed, it will produce enough data to fill about six CDs per second," said Michael Ernst, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory's Tier-1 Computing Center.