According to Wired, the company plans to offer algorithms for searching and visualizing the data sets, as an offshot of their acquisition of Gapminder.
(Google people) are providing a 3TB drive array (Linux RAID5). The array is provided in “suitcase” and shipped to anyone who wants to send they data to Google. Anyone interested gives Google the file tree, and they SLURP the data off the drive. I believe they can extend this to a larger array (my memory says 20TB).
One of the more interesting details is that they will actually SHIP you a suitcase with 3TB of storage for you to load your data and ship it back. I guess 3TB is not that bandwidth friendly.
More at http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/google-to-provi.html
One of the more interesting details is that they will actually SHIP you a suitcase with 3TB of storage for you to load your data and ship it back. I guess 3TB is not that bandwidth friendly.
More at http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/google-to-provi.html
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