I’m a little confused by this submission. CASTOR is the old system that has since been replaced by the CERN Tape Array since ~2020: https://cta.web.cern.ch/cta/
This is mentioned on the page but it’s easy to miss.
"Castor" was the name of a storage system used for transporting nuclear waste in Germany. There were quite a few protests against shipping nuclear waste through the country.
Wouldn't have been my choice for a software project :-)
The various CERN web pages such as this were a treasure trove of information when I was working on my last novel. I actually included a few paragraphs on Castor thinking of using it as a side-plot, but my editor cut the plot out along with a few other technical niceties. Sigh!
This is mentioned on the page but it’s easy to miss.
For reference, most disk storage for physics data uses an in-house solution called EOS: https://eos-web.web.cern.ch/eos-web/
Tape is boring but when an intern / AI / tectonic plate accidently destroys your database setup it is a huge lifesaver
Anybody know what these fancy Oracle tapes are? Is it just their implementation of a regular standard?
There isn’t a recording but slides at linked from that page.
Wouldn't have been my choice for a software project :-)
(looks like this submission uses https://castor.web.cern.ch/content/home.html instead of https://castor.web.cern.ch/castor/ the second link does not have the broken image)