CERN Accelerating science

CERN’s Information Stores Soar to 530M Gigabytes

Date published: 
16 Aug 2015
Outlet: 
datacentremanagement.org

Since restarting in Jun after a two-year upgrade, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been recording about 3GB of information per second, or about 25 petabytes — that’s 25 million gigabytes — of information per year.