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It is fortunate that storing 15TB per night is now only $300, well before supporting hardware and mirroring. Imagine having to store that much every day a deca
by ck2 3y ago
It is fortunate that storing 15TB per night is now only $300, well before supporting hardware and mirroring.
Imagine having to store that much every day a decade ago.
- imbusy111 3y agoSo $600 a decade ago? [1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoThey've got fast fiber to get the data off the mountain and into multiple data processing centers in near real-time including alerts when something interesting happens. "The nightly pipelines are based on image subtraction, a process that highlights differences between two exposures of the same field, and are designed to rapidly detect interesting transient events in the image stream and send out alerts to the community within 60 seconds of completing the image readout. " https://www.lsst.org/about/dm https://www.lsst.org/about/dm
- Randalthorro 3y agowell we don’t have to imagine, there are meeting notes!