Re: 1 TB _a day_ at CERN (was: 21 terabytes at NYNEX)

In article <mjrDrvvrB.EqG_at_netcom.com>, mjr_at_netcom.com (Mark Rosenbaum) writes:
|> In article <Pine.BSI.3.91.960517164133.16987A-100000_at_cripp
|> >On Sun, 12 May 1996, Mark Rosenbaum wrote:
|>
|> This sounds like it may be a tape library issue. I am assuming that CERN
|> is NOT trying to put 150 PB online in the near future, or even 15 in the
|> next 3 years. If that is the case then the data would reside on nearline
|> tape robots and only the indexing info and currently used data would be
|> on disk.
|>
|> So what is the disk requirement to go with the PB tape requirement?
|>
|>
|> Mark Rosenbaum Otey-Rosenbaum & Frazier
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Unless things have changed over the past few months CERN expects to have 1 PB of data online; i.e., on disk. The question still stands as to when Rdb, Oracle, or any of the multi-dimensional databases will be able to handle this much information. Hmmm... Perhaps Oracle has a patch :)

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_slac.stanford.edu Received on Fri May 24 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST