{"id":16544,"date":"2015-08-21T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=16544"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:46:53","slug":"exotic-pentaquark-particle-discovery-cerns-massive-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/exotic-pentaquark-particle-discovery-cerns-massive-data-center","title":{"rendered":"Exotic Pentaquark Particle Discovery & CERN\u2019s Massive Data Center"},"content":{"rendered":"


July, 2015; as you know.. was the all systems go for the CERNs Large Hadron Collider (LHC)<\/a>. On a Saturday evening, proton collisions resumed at the LHC and the experiments began collecting data once again. With the observation of the Higgs already in our back pocket \u2014 It was time to turn up the dial and push the LHC into double digit (TeV) energy levels. From a personal standpoint, I didn\u2019t blink an eye hearing that large amounts of Data was being collected at every turn. BUT, I was quite surprised to learn at the \u2018Amount\u2019 being collected and processed each day \u2014 About One Petabyte.<\/p>\n

Approximately 600 million times per second, particles collide within the (LHC). The digitized summary is recorded as a \u201ccollision event\u201d. Physicists must then sift through the 30 petabytes or so of data produced annually to determine if the collisions have thrown up any interesting physics. Needless to say \u2014 The Hunt is On!<\/p>\n

The Data Center<\/a> processes about one Petabyte of data every day \u2014 the equivalent of around 210,000 DVDs. The center hosts 11,000 servers with 100,000 processor cores. Some 6000 changes in the database are performed every second.<\/p>\n