High Energy Physics Quantitative Challenge

• Experiment BaBar/SLAC ATLAS/CERN

• Starts May 1999 May 2005

• Data Volume 0.2 petabytes/yr 5.0 petabytes/yr

  • Total amount 2.0 petabytes 100 petabytes

• Aggregate xfr rate 200 MB/sec disk 100 GB/sec disk

• 60 MB/sec tape 1 GB/sec tape

• Processing power 5,000 SPECint95 250,000 SPECint95

  • SPARC Ultra 10’s 526 27,000

• Physicists 800 3,000

• Locations 87 250

• Countries 9 50

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