[bouvin]

One of my fondest memories as a summer student at CERN in 1993 (in the Electronics and Computing for Physics department) was the visit to the basement beneath the main computing facility, where a colossal tape robot was in operation. Even at that time, CERN was grappling with exceedingly vast amounts of data.

[lmihaig]

I was a summer student this summer, working right next to that exact building. Unfortunately we did not get to see the tape robot, we did get visits to the experiments though.

I can say from what I've seen that the amount of data they have to deal with is still the #1 problem. Before the multi layered filters they generate a petabyte of data per second.

[jjtheblunt]

I saw the same at FermiLab as a high school kid in 1985. Those things were neat.