3 Nov. 2006 UC San Diego's Supercomputer Center Boosts Storage Capacity to Mind-Boggling Numbers
If the Industrial Age relied on ore, the Digital Age relies on storage. None of our now-necessary devices, from the most fearsome research-computing arrays to run-of-the-mill office computers to cell-phones to iPods, can work without storage. That's why Richard Moore, director of Production Systems at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), smiles as he ponders the new IBM tape drives being added to the storage "silos" in the center's already crowded computer room. SDSC already has six storage silos, each of which holds about 6,000 tapes. With the new tape drives and media (IBM System Storage TS1120 tape drives with the new industry-leading 700-gigabyte tape media), Moore and his colleagues can now store 25 petabytes - that's 25 million billion bytes - an upgrade from SDSC's previously phenomenal storage capacity of six petabytes. That will give SDSC and its host institution, the University of California San Diego, more storage capacity than any other educational institution in the world. More at: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/supercomputer/storagecapacity06.asp -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
