LHC-like challenges

tcamps

6th January 2007 - 02:18 AM

http://www.physorg.com/news87225465.html

I hope they"re working closely with the LHC Data Grid project--I"m sure both teams could learn from each other. They seem to have raw data rates on the same order of magnitude--tens of TB/day, or a few PB/year. I wonder how feasible it is for LSST to set up a comparable computing grid? How much might the two projects compete for computing resources?

kaneda

7th January 2007 - 12:22 PM

The big problem with such projects is that there are not enough people to interpret the data. Clive Tombaugh discovered Pluto (1930) looking through some OLD photographic plates. Who knows what may be there to be discovered among decades worth of data that already needs processing, with ever more piling up?

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