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In the last few decades, the use of computers in these research institutions has
increased considerably, due to their capacity to aid the researchers in processing
data and storing results.
7.1.2 Business needs
Research experiments may produce a large amount of data, which can hardly be
stored in a single place. Experiments using a particle accelerator, for example,
can produce hundreds of petabytes of data each year. All of this complex data
must be stored and analyzed in search of results.
These applications require two types of computer resources: large processing
power to analyze the data and large storage capacity to store the data and the
results of the researches. To tackle the processing power problem, various ...