Inside Diamond Light Source, the UK's synchrotron facility

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UK synchrotron: The computer room

The high-resolution detectors at the Diamond Light Source synchrotron are 16 megapixels, 32-bit sensors, sampling data at 100 times a second. Heron adds: “High data rates come of detectors” Beamlines at Diamond produce between 4 – 14 TBytes of data every day, which is handled through high-density computer rooms such as above.

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