Via slashdot – a Register article about the LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) that will be built in Chile and send data to the U.S. How much data? They are thinking it will be around 30 Terabytes a night.
What caught my eye and quite frankly surprised me, was the last paragraph
The data reduction pipelines are developed in C++ and Python. They rely on approximately 30 off-the-shelf middleware packages/libraries for parallel processing, data persistence and retrieval, data transfer, visualization, operations management and control, and security. The current design is based on MySQL layered on a parallel, fault-tolerant file system.
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I don’t usually cross-post between my blogs. But I’m doing so here for a couple reasons. One is that the posts I’m going to mention would fit in really well over here – usually I don’t have stuff that I’m torn on where to post it. The second is that I don’t allow comments over there – for a host of reasons. But I’d like something up here in case someone reads and wants to discuss.
Basically I have been and will be writing down my thoughts in regards to mission/ministry and technology. The first is here, Connections Part 1 and the second is here, Connections Part 2. I’m just getting started but thought I’d point it out now.
