The World's Largest Database!!
Quote: Record database at the German Climate Computing Centre's World Data Centre for Climate: The World Data Centre for Climate (WDCC) and the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) in Hamburg run the largest database in the world under the free Linux operating system. This is confirmed in the international ranking list of the world's largest databases published by the Winter Corporation in September. The WDCC database at the DKRZ has an inconceivable volume of almost 220 terabytes and is about double the size of the database of a well known search engine.
220 TERABYTES! OMG My primary hard disk is 80 Gigabytes. It's got all of oes.org on it several times, every picture (thousands of them!) every word. It's got the operating system on it, it's got a ton of video on it. It has all my emails on it. I've used about 50 Gig of it. So multiply the amount of data I have by 4.4 and you'd have 220 megabytes. That's a WHOLE LOT OF STORAGE. I worked on a giant database that stored every single transaction, reinvestment, dividend paid, for every single one of 12 million customers of a large financial institution. That database was about 220 GB of data and indexes. It was HUGE. This database is 1,000 times larger than that. I shake my head in disbelief. |
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Dork! 
Lol. James, the King of Dorks, was talking about this earlier.  |
I guess I join the realm of dorks in comprehending and marvelling at the sheer size of 220 TB. Ron - what is the time range on that data set, do you know? Is that soley text or text and radar imagery both? ~Katie, wallowing in dork-dom.  |
That is amazing. I want one. All I can think is the sound Tim Taylor makes when he thinks more power 
However, I am not entirely sure how to type that and do it justice. LOL |
| Naw, I don't have much info on it; I was so stunned by the dimensions! I didn't even post the link. Now I'll have to Google it again... even though Google is only half as big.
Do you think Google is jealous? (Think about THAT!  Every single page on the net fits into half that size... I mean, I can surf for a couple of days without running out of websites to visit. ) |
| Can you imagine how many songs you could put into just 1 terabyte? I'd never need to carry another CD again! I think all the nerds need to take a minute and lie down. Phew |
| I'm putting on my propeller hat here...
Maxmm wrote: Can you imagine how many songs you could put into just 1 terabyte?
According to my calculations with the average song length being 3.5 MB, about 285,714,285,714 songs can be fit on 1 TB. That's 285 TRILLION, 714 million, 285 thousand, 714. Now, if you listened to a partiuclar genre that played longer songs (ie. classic rock - think "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly) there would be somewhat fewer songs on there. I'm fairly certain that Apple will continue development of those iPod things until a TB of space will fit on your hand. Right now, the technology exists for a TB of space to fit in a smallish external hard drive next to your computer. It's expensive, but the price is coming down slowly. So sit back - the technology is COMING! ~Katie. I do this computer stuff for a living, so I guess I'm just a big dorky geek.  I have a special keyboard on my PC that Dudley can't break with his paws. He likes to reach across and try to type with me sometimes. |
Maxmm wrote: Can you imagine how many songs you could put into just 1 terabyte?
I'd never need to carry another CD again! I think all the nerds need to take a minute and lie down. PhewThat was the first thing I said when James mention it, too! Can you picture it? The iPodterra? |
| I think someone needs to go to nerd school with me for a refresher course; I think the decimal point got moved in the wrong direction!
All numbers approximate: 3.5 MB per song (Just for reference, 1MB is about 1 million characters, like the letter A for instance.) 1 GB = 1,000 MB 1 TB = 1,000 GB so 1 TB = 1,000,000 MB 1,000,000 MB / 3.5 MB per song = 285,714 songs. Almost enough to ensure enough space for all of the remakes of New York, New York! It will fit in hour hands now, and in non-volitaile flash memory A 4GB SecureDigital (SD) card is about the size of a postage stamp, you'd only need 250 of them and I'm sure over the next few years we'll see 16GB versions, so you'd only have to hold about 64 of them. 10 years from now I'd expect a 128GB version, and 6 years later a 1TB version. Remember an episode of the Original Star Trek where they had a database from some alien ship and it fit in the palm of their hand and had all of the data of their civilization? I may be confusing several episodes... Anyway, if you stripped away all of the plastic from the SD package and stacked the memory bits all together 1TB wouldn't be much bigger than that NOW. The Encyclopedia Britannica fits into about 1GB. Here's another great way of looking at it: Quote: A terabyte would hold about 900 sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica. After all, it's almost all text, which has little of the bulk of photos or audio files. But even those media are easily archived nowadays. "Every bit of sound you ever hear and everything you ever say will fit into a terabyte," Gemmell says. "And if you're putting low-resolution pictures onto a terabyte disk for an entire lifetime, you could take one every 3 minutes, from birth on."
Source:http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/careerstemplate.jsp?ArticleId=p110305 You wanna know how all of this makes me feel? Well, I'll tell ya anyway. I can feel ridges forming at the back of my neck.  |
Stoopid decimal points...  |
| If I knew what the heck all that means I'd probably be thrilled too |
| Hey Holly, this info equates to all of us nerds sitting at our computers, turning pink and giggling like little school girls. |
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| Number of songs that would play:
Quote: According to my calculations with the average song length being 3.5 MB, about 285,714,285,714 songs can be fit on 1 TB. That's 285 TRILLION, 714 million, 285 thousand, 714.
Or three Wagneria operas! |
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