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- From: sichase@csa1.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: SSC cost
- Date: 27 Jul 92 18:57:29 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <1992Jul27.162456.3127@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <MATT.92Jul27102307@physics2.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <MATT.92Jul27102307@physics2.berkeley.edu>, matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) writes...
- >
- >Further, as the paper he quotes clearly says, this is the "raw" data
- >rate---that is, this is the data rate if you wrote every single event,
- >at every single beam crossing, to tape. The whole point of any
- >experiment in high-energy physics, though, is that in most
- >interactions, almost nothing interesting happens, so you don't bother
- >to look at those events at all. Any high-energy detector selects out
- >those events which are likely to be worth studying, triggers on those
- >events, and writes only those events to tape. Typically, somewhere
- >between 1 and 10 events per second (*not* one hundred million per
- >second) get written to tape. This is another six or seven orders of
- >magnitude.
-
- Writing 100's of events per second to tape is a big number, and will
- probably be more data than you could ever use - provided you have correctly
- designed your experiment and trigger. This amounts probably to some few
- megabytes per second for SDC.
-
- If you wrote more you could never analyze them anyway in the lifespan of
- any graduate student, so why bother! That's why a good trigger is so
- crucial.
-
- Anyone who suggests that a dedector has been designed or is needed to
- record Terabytes per second is in fantasyland.
-
- -Scott
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- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
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