By Steve Ranger, 24 November 2005 10:00
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The library contains 600 tapes which will hold data from the CERN experiment when it is up and running. When researchers request a particular file the robot hand will locate the right tape.
Photo: Steve Ranger
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1. Just some Guy
OK, so Silicom.com have the opportunity to look inside a 'leading edge' data centre, part of the global grid for the Large Hadron Collider, and three of the four photos are of a Storgaetek tape library? Very similar, in fact, to the tape libraries found in almost every single computer room with 5+ server.
/sigh