11.20.09
As both an astrophysicist and director of SDSC, Mike Norman understands two common perspectives on archiving massive scientific datasets. During a live demonstration at the SC09 conference of streaming data simulating cosmic structures of the early universe, Norman said that some center directors view their data archives as “black holes,” where a wealth of data accumulates and needs to be protected.
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11.20.09
A research team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego and the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has won the Storage Challenge competition at SC09.
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