Ibm Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever

The 120 petabyte drive could enable detailed simulations of real-world phenomena or store 24 billion MP3s. It is made of 200,000 conventional hard disk drives working together.

IBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever

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Biggest Data Drive Ever Built By Ibm Can Back Up 60 Copies Of Wayback Machine

A 120 petabyte drive is being built by researchers at IBM's Almaden, California, R&D lab. It will be the largest data repository ever built, and will comprise 200,000 hard disk drives strung together.

The giant data container is expected to store around one trillion files and should provide the space needed to allow more powerful simulations of complex systems, like those used to model weather and climate.

A 120 petabyte drive could hold 24 billion typical five-megabyte MP3 files or comfortably swallow 60 copies of the biggest backup of the Web, the 150 billion pages that make up the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.

More: Technology Review (via Cliff Pickover).

Biggest data drive ever built by IBM can back up 60 copies of Wayback Machine

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Amazon Cloud Drive & Cloud Player: Buy Music Once, Listen Forever

With Amazon's new cloud storage option, you can purchase MP3 singles and albums and store the music online. Store music, video and data on the Cloud Drive.

Amazon Cloud Drive & Cloud Player: Buy Music Once, Listen Forever

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Facebook Ramps Up Big E-Commerce Drive

The social network is teaming up with startups, vendors, and even giant Internet rivals to turn Facebook pages into online shopping outlets fueled by recommendations from friends who "like" to buy

Facebook Ramps Up Big E-Commerce Drive

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Computer to race humans to drive deepest spikes on Jeopardy! railroad

IBM has evidently designed a computer system optimized for winning Jeopardy! and have arranged for it to duel John Henry or a reasonable facimile on TV:

Two of the venerable game show's most successful champions -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter -- will play two games against "Watson," a computer program developed by IBM's artificial intelligence team. The matches will be spread over three days that will air Feb. 14-16, the game show said on Tuesday.

'Jeopardy!' to pit humans against IBM machine (via /.)

Computer to race humans to drive deepest spikes on Jeopardy! railroad

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