NCSA: A look inside one of the world's most capable supercomputer facilities

NCSA: A look inside one of the world's most capable supercomputer facilities: "Ron told me it took the NCSA 19 years to reach the petabyte milestone of storage requirement. This happened in 2005. But, it only took another 12 months to reach the second petabyte (2006) milestone. The third came in only eight months (2007) and right now they’re estimating six months more to reach number four. To put that into perspective, a petabyte is approximately 1,500,000 CDs worth of data, which is enough to fill a football field five discs high with CDs laid end to end."