Some figures for the 32 ESRF beamlines

• Data rates

• • Average of 100 GB/day
  • Highest speed is 20 MB/s
  • 2k2 CCD’s will mean 4xdata

• Staff

• • 3 support groups :
  • • 17 software engineers
    • 16 electronics technicians
    • 12 system administrators
  • Ideal is a central support group with 1 software + 1 electronics member per beamline