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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, @06:19PM
at least it intended to when I was in grad school.
For a little while I was in a group at SLAC that was designing a C++ replacement for the byzantine CERNLIB. That replacement included a self-describing data format.
But I got a little loopy and so dropped out of school. I didn't follow their efforts after that.
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