SDC News > SCD photo of the week: February 27, 2003

SCD staff take a bow for their work in supporting the Mass Storage System (MSS). L to R: Mark Love, Julie Harris, Bill Anderson, George Williams, Erich Thanhardt, Melissa Breedlove, Jirinna Kokes, Craig Ruff, Gene Harano (manager, High-Performance Systems Section), John Merrill (head, MSS Group).

MSS crosses petabyte milestone

Last November the NCAR MSS exceeded 1 petabyte of stored data. To celebrate this monumental event, SCD staff invited UCAR/NCAR employees to a "Petabyte Party," which was held on 14 February 2003 in the Foothills Laboratory cafeteria atrium.

Above, Gene Harano praises the efforts of SCD staff in the MSS Group and the Computer Production Group toward developing, managing, and supporting the system through the years—and invites people to come back next February for a "2-Petabyte Party"!

For photos of the party, along with more information on the history and rising data storage rate of the MSS, see:

http://www.scd.ucar.edu/news/03/features/0227.petabyte.html

Photo: Lynda Lester—NCAR/SCD