Mapping the universe at 30 Terabytes a night
Jeff Kantor, on building and managing a 150 Petabyte database
Interview It makes for one heck of a project mission statement. Explore the nature of dark matter, chart the Solar System in exhaustive detail, discover and analyze rare objects such as neutron stars and black hole binaries, and map out the structure of the Galaxy.…
Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/03/lsst_jeff_kantor/