Archive for February 14th, 2008

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Google hosting scientific data

Google is planning to host a lot of scientific data. Below are the slides from Jon Trowbridge at Google (my favorite part is comparing the transfer rates of FedEx to Ethernet):

Depending on the API Google provides, it would be convenient to have IDL bindings capable of grabbing parts of this data.
Link via FlowingData.

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