Processing LHC Data

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Processing LHC Data
The LHC produces 600 million collisions every second in each detector, which generates approximately one petabyte of data per second. None of today's computing systems are capable of recording such rates
[video=youtube;jDC3-QSiLB4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDC3-QSiLB4[/video]
 
Thanks for sending that along. It's a bit humbling to compare this to the sort of embedded systems with which I work on a daily basis.