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Google's Academic TB Swap Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hey-look-it's-chris dept.

eldavojohn writes "Google is transferring data the old fashioned way — by mailing hard drive arrays around to collect information and then sending copies to other institutions. All in the name of science & education. From the article, 'The program is currently informal and not open to the general public. Google either approaches bodies that it knows has large data sets or is contacted by scientists themselves. One of the largest data sets copied and distributed was data from the Hubble telescope — 120 terabytes of data. One terabyte is equivalent to 1,000 gigabytes. Mr. DiBona said he hoped that Google could one day make the data available to the public.'"

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  1. Re:Should we be continuing this fallacy? by Cristofori42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    umm a terabyte is really 1 terabyte. Though 1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes not 1000... but whatever.

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  2. Re:Large datasets by Sobrique · · Score: 4, Funny
    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a lorryload of backup tapes traveling at 60 miles an hour.

    Latency may leave something to be desired though :)

  3. In Other News by UnknowingFool · · Score: 4, Funny

    FedEx delivered what appeared to be a ton of broken office chairs to Google headquarters this morning. When asked for the sender's ID, the severely beaten FedEx courier would only reply that the sender wished to remain anonymous.

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  4. Other Uses for Mass Data Transfer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Moe: Say, Barn, uh, remember when I said I'd have to send away to NASA to calculate your bar tab?
    Barney: Oh ho, oh yeah, you had a good laugh, Moe.
    Moe: The results came back today. (reading a printout) You owe me seventy billion dollars.
    Barney: Huh?
    Moe: No, wait, wait, wait, that's for the Voyager spacecraft. Your tab is fourteen billion dollars.

  5. Hubble Data by Ikyaat · · Score: 2, Funny

    120 TB of data from the Hubble telescope? I wish I was paid to go through that. And this picture is of a...star and this one is a star And a star another star OMG its a FRICKIN STAR

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    1. Re:Hubble Data by nharmon · · Score: 2, Funny

      "That's no moon"

  6. Re:fixed by Macthorpe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wrong. One tebibyte is equal to 1024 gibibytes. One tarabyte equals 1000 gigabytes. If you're going to correct someone, do it right.

    You meant 'terabyte', not 'tarabyte'. If you're going to correct someone, do it right.

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  7. Bark! Bark! Bark! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm so tired of this stuff. Byte me!

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    1. Re:Bark! Bark! Bark! by AchiIIe · · Score: 4, Funny

      > I'm so tired of this stuff. Byte me!

      I'm sorry, that's wrong too:

      * 1 byte == 2 nibbles
      * 1 byte != 1 bite

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  8. Re:This is NOT good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Google's mission is to organize the world's information and surround it with advertisements.


    Fixed that for you.