Berkeley Lab Expert Interviews
A series of expert interviews that showcase the work of Berkeley Lab researchers, connecting audiences with the people behind the science. Listen to our scientists discuss how their groundbreaking research enables science solutions for the world.
Berkeley Lab Expert Interviews
Mario Cromaz
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Berkeley Lab
Cromaz
0:0 So old school DVDs are 4.7 gigabytes. If you take an old school, DVD, we send that data every second, 3,600 seconds, an hour, 24 hours a day. Four, five or 10 days. And then basically when it gets to Oak Ridge, that data gets analyzed. So you have to analyze all that in real time and reduce it. And what gets sent back is positioned, so that's about an order of magnitude less data. So we don't store that much data. We literally reduce it on the fly.