LHC Computing Grid Pushes Petabytes of Data

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LHC computing grid pushes petabytes of data, beats expectations
The disks are managed as a cloud service, with arrays of drives hooked up to Linux boxes in JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) mode. Each of these boxes gets a 1Gbps connection, and any CPU in the storage cluster can read data from any of the disks.