Interesting note - I don't know if it's a typo in the article or not, but 15PB/year is less than one CD per second, not the 6 CDs per second the article states.
If the numbers in the article are correct, they might be combining or selecting parts of the data on the fly meaning there might be more relevance later on when the data distribution technology catches up with the data the LHC is producing.
The dedicated 10Gbps pipe mentioned elsewhere can handle the 15PB/year, but not the full 6CDs/second mentioned here.
15PB/year is "today". 6 CDs per second is the hoped-for "full speed" future.
Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centers from 33 countries to analyze and manage more than 15 million gigabytes of LHC data every year.
However...
"When the LHC starts running at full speed, it will produce enough data to fill about six CDs per second," said Michael Ernst, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory's Tier-1 Computing Center.
If the numbers in the article are correct, they might be combining or selecting parts of the data on the fly meaning there might be more relevance later on when the data distribution technology catches up with the data the LHC is producing.
The dedicated 10Gbps pipe mentioned elsewhere can handle the 15PB/year, but not the full 6CDs/second mentioned here.
Very impressive regardless. :)