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CERN's LCG, a 15-Petabyte Network

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is on its way to switch on the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider in August. A super-high-bandwidth network will transfer data from the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) to 500 institutions around the world. About 5,000 scientists will have about 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of data coming their way every year for at least ten years. The particle accelerator's job will be smashing pro... Read »
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