The Rosalind Franklin Institute has recently celebrated a massive data milestone, collecting one Petabyte of data from its research efforts. One petabyte of data is the equivalent of 500 billion pages of standard typed text. For the Franklin, this data consists of experimental data from our world class suite of imaging tools.
The Franklin passed this milestone in early May and held a small celebration earlier in July to mark the event. The AI team at the Franklin were joined by colleagues from the STFC Scientific Computing Department who house the servers that are used for data storage for the Franklin and other STFC departments.
To celebrate this milestone, the Franklin’s AI team and the STFC Scientific Computing Department brought some demonstrations of servers and some of their work to showcase to staff, which attendees enjoyed alongside the celebratory cake.
Dr Laura Shemilt Head of Research Software Engineering with the Franklin’s Artificial Intelligence and Informatics team said: “Reaching 1 petabyte of curated scientific data is a huge achievement. This is equivalent to 800 tomograms or 40,000 Mass Spec Images. To reach this milestone reflects not just the work of the AI Team to provide the infrastructure to make this possible, but to all the scientists who are working tirelessly towards grand biological challenges.”
