Newswire: 13 June 2013 - CERN - CERN and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics inaugurate CERN data centre's extension in Budapest, Hungary

Geneva 13 June 2013. CERN[1] and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics[2] today inaugurated the Hungarian data centre in Budapest, marking the completion of the facility hosting the extension for CERN computing resources. About 500 servers, 20,000 computing cores, and 5.5 Petabytes of storage are already operational at the site. The dedicated and redundant 100 Gbit/s circuits connecting the two sites are functional since February 2013 and are among the first transnational links at this distance...