Ookhoi wrote:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> > > On my last visit there I read some sign saying that some experiment would
> > > produce 1PB data per year. Now guess why certain people don't even seriously
> > > think about terabytes any longer ...
> >
> > ATLAS. In 5 years. We currently have a petabyte of secondary storage
> > to play with; and that is now being consider *small*.
>
> With Linux? What kind of hardware do you use for that, and what is the
> largest array of disks and largest partition?
>
That is To Be Determined.
I'm hoping to be able to show that Large Scale Linux based systems (ie,
terabyte filesystems) are capable of the performance and reliability to
handle this.
Nothing has been bought yet for ATLAS. It's still in the planning
stages. At this time, Linux has a very good chance of being the main
platform for it.
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