[quote] Summer of Research 2011 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_Summer_of_Research_2011 ‹ Asher Feldman and Ryan Lane http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ryan_lane created the systems infrastructure for the Summer of Research team to perform data mining and analysis work. [/quote]
Do you have more info about this? It sounds like they're duplicating the Toolserver, but it's hard to say without knowing more.
They need access to information not available on the toolserver. This is just a single virtual machine that has mysql access to a database replica.
- Ryan