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I don't work in this specific field, but did previously, during the first decade of this century, in broadcast video distribution. At the time, UDP based tools
by phillc73 10y ago
I don't work in this specific field, but did previously, during the first decade of this century, in broadcast video distribution.
At the time, UDP based tools such as Aspera[1], Signiant[2] and FileCatalyst[3] were all the rage for punting large amount of data over the public Internet.
[1] http://asperasoft.com/ http://asperasoft.com/
[2] http://www.signiant.com/ http://www.signiant.com/
[3] http://filecatalyst.com/ http://filecatalyst.com/
- jerven 10y agoAspera, is the current winner in Bioinformatics. The European Bioinformatics Institute and US NCBI are both big users of it. Mainly for INSDC (Genbank/ENA/DDBJ) and SRA (Short Read Achive) uploads. For UniProt a smaller dataset we just use it to clone servers and data from Switzerland to the UK and US at 1GB/s over wide area internet. Very fast, and quite affordable.
- dekhn 10y agoI used aspera for a while, but plain old HTTP over commodity networks works fine if you balance your transfers over many TCP connections.