• Question: Most expensive peace of software/Machinery you have used?

    Asked by Little Boy Dedoid to Oli on 11 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Oliver Charity

      Oliver Charity answered on 11 Nov 2016:


      Hi Dedoid,

      The most expensive peice of machinery we use is called a high power computing ‘cluster’. This is bascially loads and loads of desktop computers stuck together, and the one we use has about 2 petabytes of data (which is 2,000,000 gigabytes), manages 40,000 jobs each weak.

      Oli

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