The dizzying data rate conundrum
June 8, 2009 | Source: Technology Review
Physicists can’t agree about strategies for storing the petabytes of data per year to be generated by the the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and in what format.
The LHC is emblematic of a broader problem in science.
The problem is also emblmematic of a broader problem on the Internet, as video and audio firehouses generate similar concerns. – Ed