1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surviellience platform

[moltar]

LiveLeak.com - 1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surviellience platform by DARPA.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

Stores 1 million TB of data per-day? Fuck me...

 

[moltar]

Ya wtf. They probably have a team of sys admins just assembling and deploying servers 24/7.

 

[moltar]

Let's say that the most affordable HDD these days is about 2TB. This is if we are going Google route, where they buy cheap, most available hardware. That means they need to deploy 500,000 HDDs per day! Lets say they have 10 disk arrays. That is 50k servers per day. How is this even possible???

 

[dreamache]

But if we had our choice, we would like Argus to be over the same area, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

Of fucking course you would.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

Apparently, the military has kick-ass technology that's not available to us peasants.

 

[dreamache]

Let's say that the most affordable HDD these days is about 2TB. This is if we are going Google route, where they buy cheap, most available hardware. That means they need to deploy 500,000 HDDs per day! Lets say they have 10 disk arrays. That is 50k servers per day. How is this even possible???

April 15th

 

[moltar]

April 15th

Ok, obviously money is not an issue when it comes to gov spending. But how is this physically possible? How many people do you need to employ to do this?

The only thing I can think of is that they do not store data for too long. Maybe just going back 2-3 days and then overwrite it. Otherwise I can't see how this is possible to scale. You'd have to build data centers all the time and buy insane amounts of hardware on daily basis that the whole China won't be able to supply

 

[joshman1204]

Ok, obviously money is not an issue when it comes to gov spending. But how is this physically possible? How many people do you need to employ to do this?

The only thing I can think of is that they do not store data for too long. Maybe just going back 2-3 days and then overwrite it. Otherwise I can't see how this is possible to scale. You'd have to build data centers all the time and buy insane amounts of hardware on daily basis that the whole China won't be able to supply

Your assuming they are using 2Tb drives ... They could have some crazy huge drives that are massively expensive but dont need very many of them. I highly doubt they would spend billions on this camera system and then store the data on off the shelf drives.

 

[joshman1204]

A quick google came up with this setup that the NSA is building (NEWS TECHNOLOGY: World's Largest Hard Drive)

They say it is a 1 yottabyte hard drive.

Edit:

Another cool set of stats

On YouTube, 72 hours of video are uploaded per minute, translating to a terabyte every four minutes.

500 terabytes of new data per day are ingested in Facebook databases.

The CERN Large Hadron Collider generates 1 petabyte per second.

The proposed Square Kilometer Array telescope will generate an exabyte of data per day.

Sensors from a Boeing jet engine create 20 terabytes of data every hour.

 

[moltar]

http://144.206.159.178/ft/CONF/16415556/16415570.pdf

The ARGUS Ground Exploitation is designed around COTS hardware with flexibility and scalability in mind. While the
base configuration is intended for approximately 100 operators and 200Mbps of live video streams, additional operator
workstations and video streams from the aerial platform can be accommodated by simply adding inexpensive servers to
the deployment. The custom World Wind software components are implemented as plug-ins, and plug-ins for other
sensor platforms can run simultaneously as additional layers.

COTS: Commercial off-the-shelf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[joshman1204]

Well you just posted the answer to your own question

The videos and MTI streamed from the sensor is stored for over 70 hours, giving operators “TiVo-like” control to pause,
rewind, and skip ahead in video for an entire mission

 

[moltar]

Some more interesting background tech info: Ambivalent Engineer: ARGUS-IS

They also say something stupid about a million terabytes of data per mission, which is BS: if the camera runs for 16 hours the 368 sensors generate 2,000 terabytes of raw data.

They've got 32 laptop drives in the system (one per single board computer). If those store 300 GB apiece, that's 10 terabytes of total storage. 16 hours of storage would require 0.05 bits/pixel -- no way. The JPEG2000 compressor chips are more likely to deliver 0.2 bits/pixel, which means they might be storing one of every four frames.

 

[productionhead]

It's called EC2
:3

 

[sameh shahien]

WoW, that's a huge traffic.

 

[20figures]

The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) | Threat Level | Wired.com

orly?


Utah Data Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Utah Data Center, formally known as the Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility being built for the United States National Security Agency intelligence bureau that is designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes.[1][2]"

Yottabytes.

Fucking Yottabytes.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

But how is this physically possible?

Qubits.

 

[chigga102]

Well storage aint a big deal cause from the video it says its meant to be deployed on UAVs

 

[metoo]

Let's say that the most affordable HDD these days is about 2TB. This is if we are going Google route, where they buy cheap, most available hardware. That means they need to deploy 500,000 HDDs per day! Lets say they have 10 disk arrays. That is 50k servers per day. How is this even possible???

That's how:

Computer files stored accurately on DNA in new breakthrough - Telegraph

 

[BigWill]

Ok, obviously money is not an issue when it comes to gov spending. But how is this physically possible? How many people do you need to employ to do this?

Who cares when you have unlimited free monies!