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One of the last interviews I saw by Jim Gray mentioned shipping around astronomical data sets in big boxes of hard drives. At that time, they were more likely i
by cafard 11y ago
One of the last interviews I saw by Jim Gray mentioned shipping around astronomical data sets in big boxes of hard drives. At that time, they were more likely in the 10GB range than 1TB.
- dstyrb 11y agoAs recently at 2000, major astronomical surveys (SDSS, York et al. 2000) would ship harddrives daily "via express courier" from the scopes to the processing computers. That's the most recent I can think of. Although some surveys (2MASS) still offer data delivery "on a set of DVDs" if you can't handle FTP.