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BIRTH OF WEB, LHC PAGE 1, BULLETIN... E.G. BIRTH OF WEB, LHC... Search [ ]Search * | en + o en o fr News News Topic: Computing --------------------------------------------------------------------- Voir en francais An exabyte of disk storage at CERN CERN disk storage capacity passes the threshold of one million terabytes of disk space 29 September, 2023 | By Tim Smith Some devices that form CERN's data storage capacity. A fraction of the 111 000 devices that form CERN's data storage capacity. (Image: CERN) CERN's data store has now crossed the remarkable capacity threshold of one exabyte, meaning that CERN has one million terabytes of disk space ready for data! CERN's data store not only serves LHC physics data, but also the whole spectrum of experiments and services needing online data management. This data capacity is provided using 111 000 devices, predominantly hard disks along with an increasing fraction of flash drives. Having such a large number of commodity devices means that component failures are common, so the store is built to be resilient, using different data replication methods. These disks, most of which are used to store physics data, are orchestrated by CERN's open-source software solution, EOS, which was created to meet the LHC's extreme computing requirements. "We reached this new all-time record for CERN's storage infrastructure after capacity extensions for the upcoming LHC heavy-ion run," explains Andreas Peters, EOS project leader. "It is not just a celebration of data capacity, it is also a performance achievement, thanks to the reading rate of the combined data store crossing, for the first time, the one terabyte per second (1 TB/s) threshold." home.cern,Computers and Control Rooms This graph shows the capacity evolution of CERN's data store. (Image: CERN) "This achievement marks the accomplishment of a significant target in data-handling capabilities. It sets new standards for high-performance storage systems in scientific research for future LHC runs," emphasises Joachim Mnich, CERN Director for Research and Computing. +-----------------------------------------+ |How many bytes is that? | |Megabyte = 1 000 000 bytes | |Gigabyte = 1 000 000 000 bytes | |Terabyte = 1 000 000 000 000 bytes | |Petabyte = 1 000 000 000 000 000 bytes | |Exabyte = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes| +-----------------------------------------+ computingdata centre Related Articles Preparing for a quantum leap: researchers cha... Computing News 17 July, 2023 CERN tech to help investigate the dark univer... Experiments News 1 July, 2023 Lebanon inaugurates the computer servers dona... Computing News 25 May, 2023 View all news Also On Computing Computer security: T2U4U2FA* *Thanks to you ... Computing News 26 September, 2023 Computer Security: Avoiding salmonella in you... Computing News 5 September, 2023 Computer Security: I know what you did last s... 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