A Blog

Yeah, I’m a tad behind on updating my blog… So, just this week several of us from work went to Fermilab to participate in the OSG Storage Forum. Mostly, it was a couple day talk for interested parties participating in the grid to talk about their various storage solutions. The biggest presentations came from the folks involved with the CMS and ATLAS projects, stemming from the work at the LHC. To support physicists around the nation and the globe, there are a whole series of sites dedicated to providing access to the terabytes of data flowing from the LHC; all of it just waiting to be analyzed.

The biggest reason I went was to hear about other people using Hadoop as a replacement for a piece of software called dCache… Oh yeah, and it was held in the most awesome office building in the world:

That’s pretty much the interesting bits of that visit. Though, I thought Fermilab was pretty nifty.