New center at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility to crunch millions of gigabytes a day from agency's 10 science labs
At risk of drowning in the output from its own facilities, the Department of Energy plans to build a major new computing center specifically to crunch experimental data. The agency will construct a $305 million High Performance Data Facility at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia,eek.
Within a decade, the data torrent from the five x-ray sources alone should grow by more than a factor of 100 to reach 1 billion gigabytes per year, says Jana Thayer, director of the LCLS’s data systems division. That’s the equivalent of 1.5 million full-length movies per day, she says. “It’s not just that we need to watch these movies,” she says. “We need to look at every single frame of every movie and analyze it in real time.
The JLab facility aims to do just that. Like the supercomputers DOE runs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and at Argonne, it will include hundreds of thousands of processors and a huge, automated repository of tapes. But the existing supercomputers are optimized to grind away steadily on enormous simulations of the climate or exotic materials or to train artificial intelligence programs. Time on the machines is apportioned months in advance.
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