The CERN Computer Center is the number-crunching hub that powers the physics research lab's quest to discover the nature of the universe.
A formidable 8,000 servers housing 40,000 Intel processor cores provide the grunt to help crack the petabytes of data spewed out from CERN's cutting-edge particle accelerators, based here....
The computing center holds 1,500 10-gigabit ports for data exchange and 70,000 1-gigabit ports for information flow among CERN sites. These are just some of the switching points.
Once the data arrives at the center it is immediately stored and reprocessed before being made available to 7,000 physicists in 33 countries via the LHC grid.
...All the hardware in the computing center uses off-the-shelf components, and the servers run a customized version of Red Hat Linux.
Brand loyalty is the strongest amongst Linux users. 89 percent of existing users of RedHat Linux said they're likely to continue using it in the future also.
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Bob
2008-10-08 12:43:04