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rahulm
Mar 7th 2007, 5:30 am
HI friends,
Google is developing a program to help academics around the world exchange huge amounts of data.........gr8:) The firm's open source team is working on ways to physically transfer huge data sets up to 120 terabytes in size. :cool: Google keeps a copy and the data is always in an open format, or in the public domain or perhaps covered by a creative commons license...........more details are at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/6425975.stm
i think this good step initiated by the google.......
thanx
prodigy
Mar 7th 2007, 5:39 am
interesting, How will this effect us?? I dont completly understand -_-
CountryBoy
Mar 7th 2007, 6:05 am
I don't think it's such a good idea. If I'm doing some research I don't want Google to keep a copy of the data before it is published in a journal - it could be open to misuse even in a 'noble' profession like ours. Terabytes? I don't know anyone who generates terabytes of data so I would question the need to have such a program.

HI friends,
Google is developing a program to help academics around the world exchange huge amounts of data.........gr8:) The firm's open source team is working on ways to physically transfer huge data sets up to 120 terabytes in size. :cool: Google keeps a copy and the data is always in an open format, or in the public domain or perhaps covered by a creative commons license...........more details are at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/6425975.stm
i think this good step initiated by the google.......
thanx
jaybee
Mar 7th 2007, 6:54 am
I don't think it's such a good idea. If I'm doing some research I don't want Google to keep a copy of the data before it is published in a journal - it could be open to misuse even in a 'noble' profession like ours. Terabytes? I don't know anyone who generates terabytes of data so I would question the need to have such a program.

Medical studies with full body 3D CAT scans from thousands of people probably couldn't put all their data on a floppy disk. Satellites generate huge data sets. Climate studies have terabytes. Particle colliders have millions of sensors that each gather millions of observations. Plenty of large projects might benefit from a free data storage/exchange facility. This project seems geared towards open source/collaborative projects - not for everyone, but might be of interest to some.
rahulm
Mar 10th 2007, 1:53 am
I don't think it's such a good idea. If I'm doing some research I don't want Google to keep a copy of the data before it is published in a journal - it could be open to misuse even in a 'noble' profession like ours. Terabytes? I don't know anyone who generates terabytes of data so I would question the need to have such a program.

I agreed and i m hoping that google wud not violate the copyrighting rule :)