For these projects, particularly the CERN experiments whose members number in the thousands and whose data collections are expected to reach 100
Petabytes early in the next decade, the computing resources available through the iVDGL are expected to enable new classes of data-intensive algorithms that will lead to new scientific results.
During the January to March period this year, Globe registered a 37 percent increase in data traffic to 181
petabytes from 131
petabytes in the same period last year.
A terabyte is equivalent to 200 hours of music, while a
petabyte is about 280,000 hours, or nearly 32 years of music.
IBM is working on a 120PB (
petabyte) drive, which quite definitely is the largest we've ever heard of.
For the latter, IBM said that researchers are using an unspecified magnetic technology that could store a
petabyte of data in a standard 1U rack unit.
Johns Hopkins University cosmologist Alex Szalay and Jim Gray of Microsoft, who was lost at sea in 2007, spent much of the past decade discussing challenges posed by data files that will soon approach the
petabyte ([10.sup.15]--or quadrillion--byte) scale.
Their GridWorks storage resource management platform, coupled with McDATA SANavigator, monitors more than a
petabyte of customer data across approximately 1,500 companies, dozens of SANs and thousands of servers to assist clients in protecting their data and managing their resource management objectives.
One
petabyte is equal to about 3.4 years of 24/7 full high-definition video recording.
Fujitsu said it is enabling enterprises to push beyond the boundaries of unpredictable data growth into the double-digit
petabyte range, with the introduction of the new FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS DX8700 S3 and DX8900 S3.