[Foundation-l] dumps

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/2/25 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> Ahh ok. Anyone who wants to do processing on the full history (and there are
> a lot of these people who exist!) by definition *has* to be willing to throw
> some money at it. It simply doesn't fit on commercial drives. In fact, it
> would hardly fit on either of the two raid clusters I have access to. Making
> it available on Amazon means that, for a fair market rate, you don't have to
> download or uncompress the data. You can just start your data crunching. I
> can only speak for academics but there is generally funding available for
> Amazon EC2 etc... for specific projects. Professors are even known to pay
> for a fixed amount of processing for ambitious student projects, and these
> kinds of earmarks are easily fit into grants.

Academics usually have access to the necessary computers (or clusters
thereof) to do such processing directly. I think Amazon hosting of
dumps would appeal mainly to non-academics who only have access to
home PCs.