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Date:11/6/2008

d Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS for short, a wide-field celestial imaging facility being built at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy. Its architects plan to photograph the entire available sky several times each month, trying to discover asteroids and comets that could pose a danger to Earth. The huge volume of images produced by this system will no doubt also prove valuable for many other scientific programs.

When Pan-STARRS is fully operational, it will have four telescopes, each with a digital camera capable of 1.4-gigapixel resolution. With just one telescope in operation so far, the facility already generates 1.4 terabytes of image data per night. For the longer term, its architects are installing 1.1 petabytes (quadrillion bytes) of disk storage. Although Pan-STARRS won't use up all of that storage right away, it will still rank as one of the world's largest databases.

Compressing, storing and crunching that data is the job of SQL Server.

"There are only a handful of databases that large in the world," said Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of the Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft. "If SQL Server can handle applications this large, imagine how well it can meet the needs of the average enterprise. SQL Server 2008 is packed with technologies to scale up individual servers and scale out very large databases."

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Valerie Daggett's world-renowned protein research lab at the University of Washington is near the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. Her team is investigating one of the fundamental unsolved problems in molecular bioengineering: the mechanism by which proteins fold themselves from essentially two-dimensional polypeptide chains into precise, three-dimensional structures. Experts believe that incorrectly folded proteins may be responsible for some of the most menacing diseases of our era, including mad cow disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, emp
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