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Tuesday, February 12, 2002
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991892 Virtual supercomputer opens up vast physics database Will Knight A distributed computer project linking universities in the UK, the US and France is allowing particle physicists to analyse an archive of data of unprecedented size. The physicists will use the system to investigate millions of observations of sub-atomic particles called B-mesons collected at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC) in California. The observations from SLAC so far add up to more than 145 terabytes of data and over the next two years a further 300 terabytes will be added. It would require a stack of floppy disks 600 miles high to store that total amount of data....
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