Some data data to wow ’em at the water cooler
From the January 2009 issue of “Computer”:
- The US power electric grid generates 15 terabytes of raw data each year
- Google sorts through 20 petabytes of information daily
- The Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will generate 2 petabytes of info per second
- New climate models which resolve rather than parameterize will cause a 1,000-fold increase in data
- New genomics and proteomics work in biology produces, nationally, over 100 terabytes of data per day