Comment Corrections and additional info (Score 1) 226
That's not "High Productivity Computing" Wire... the HPC in "HPC Wire" stands for High-Performance Computing.
The real story on the ~15PB/year data store is to be found in these two sites:
This outlines the hardware environment supporting the data (IBM 3584 w/ Ultrium and IBM DS4400):
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/GRC 03001USEN/GRC03001USEN.PDF
This outlines the software environment (layered Tivoli Storage Manager and dCache):
http://www.dcache.org/manuals/tsm-symposium-2005-p aper.pdf
Or is it?
Here, Sun posts how Storagetek supplied the tape storage:
http://www.sun.com/customers/storage/cern.xml
The LCG
Something could certainly be said about their computing backend of going through this data. It's called the LHC LCG (Large Hadron Collider Large Computing Grid) and is described here:
http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/tdr/LCG_TDR_v1_04.pdf
The real story on the ~15PB/year data store is to be found in these two sites:
This outlines the hardware environment supporting the data (IBM 3584 w/ Ultrium and IBM DS4400):
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/GR
This outlines the software environment (layered Tivoli Storage Manager and dCache):
http://www.dcache.org/manuals/tsm-symposium-2005-
Or is it?
Here, Sun posts how Storagetek supplied the tape storage:
http://www.sun.com/customers/storage/cern.xml
The LCG
Something could certainly be said about their computing backend of going through this data. It's called the LHC LCG (Large Hadron Collider Large Computing Grid) and is described here:
http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/tdr/LCG_TDR_v1_04.pdf
