The NAF: National Analysis Facility at DESY
Foto: DESY/Heiner Müller-Elsner
TIER-2 & NAF
The LHC accelerator near Geneva, the current flagship of particle physics and the world's most powerful accelerator, generates data amounting to around 25 petabytes (25 million gigabytes) each year, enough to fill more than a million DVDs a year. Thousands of scientists around the world analyse this flood of data – an enormous challenge with respect to data storage and computing power.
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