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The National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing a $1.8 million grant for the initial development of a data storage network over the next two years. A collaborative team will combine their expertise, facilities and research challenges to develop the Open Storage Network (OSN). OSN will enable academic researchers across the nation to work with and share their data more efficiently than ever before.
[...] NSF's investment in OSN builds on a seed grant by Schmidt Futures — a philanthropic initiative founded by former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt –to enable the data transfer systems for the new network. These systems are designed to be low-cost, high-throughput, large-capacity, and capable of matching the speed of a 100-gigabit network connection with only a small number of nodes. This configuration will help to ensure that OSN can eventually be deployed in many universities across the U.S. to leverage prior investments and establish sustainable management for the overall storage network.
Source: NSF Supports Development of New Nationwide Data Storage Network
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday June 11 2018, @09:56AM (1 child)
but to enable academics to use each others' computers without having to actually visit these computers in person.
However that often required them to FTP huge data sets to those other computers. While far less costly than plane fare is was slow as well as a heavy drain on the ARPANET's scarce resources.
Around the time I started at Tech in 1982, I read somewhere that there were "almost three hundred" hosts on the ARPANET.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Muad'Dave on Monday June 11 2018, @11:21AM
> FTP huge data sets
... datasets that could exceed ten million bytes in some extreme cases.