The High Energy Physics Group at Imperial College London, using the Imperial College Parallel Computing Centre's Viking Cluster, has processed an astonishing 2.5TB of useful data from the Tevatron Collider - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory - in just 60 days . The research is focused on precise studies of interactions of protons and antiprotons at the highest available energies. It involves an intense search for subatomic clues that reveal the character of the building blocks of the universe.

This is more than a third of the total output from the Collider from this period and is equivalent to 5000 cpu days. Such high data production rates means the 170GB of available space on the Centre's Storage Area Network (SAN) needs to be completely recycled every 48 hours!