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This is different to the sort of thing Google is doing in the data centre. Most of the PBs/sec don't really see the light of day since you may have a multi-megabyte "image" being captured at something like 40MHz, but practically much of the image is zeros for any given capture. So zero-suppression in the first instance already brings the data down to much more manageable numbers, before they hit off-the-shelf computing hardware.

(At least, that was the case a few years ago. I don't know how much it has changed but I would be surprised if they had totally overhauled things).



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