Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

I just watched the $6 billion experiment where CERN is going to run its large Hadron Collider (Fondly called by its multi-team of scientists as the LHC). Then I saw this El reg article: Based at Oxford University, WTCHG is part of a world-wide collaborative programme which is researching the genetic causes of diabetes, obesity and other common ailments. Its own compute resources include a 120-node Linux cluster and 25 core servers, plus a Fibre Channel SAN. It also has a server that now hosts four 21TB Nexsan SATABeast arrays, mirrored for a total of 42TB, said Dr Tim Bardsley, WTCHG's IT manager. It manages its storage using DataCore's SANmelody software, which allows users to access data via iSCSI and Fibre Channel. and compared to that CERN's LHC is to generate 2 Petabytes of data per second! A bit more about the LHC: Cern is building the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator to study subatomic matter and the forces that hold it together. The LHC is a 27km rin...