Have you read the Wired article on Matrix Reloaded yet?

[everman]

The massive datastreams from these cameras - one gigabyte a second

Any info on the hardware they used to store and process this?

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
When one is monitoring every particular component of pretty much the most complicated machine on the planet and taking tens of thousands of samples per second per sensor, the data rate gets astronomical. (pun not intended!)

1GB per camera is pretty high. Of course it depends on resolution and the frame capture rate. If one wishes to capture the motion of a plasma jet at 45,000 FPS with 14 megapixels of 32bit colour, you need a fat pipe your storage place. :Q Of course when viewed at 60 FPS, the slow motion is very detailed and the eye can catch anomalies that would never be visible otherwise.

-DAK-

Hey now, the machine I work on is pretty complicated too. CEBAF As a member of the Accelerator Computing Environment team, I should be able to find out details on our data acquisition system and how much data is collected per unit time.