[talk] Climate Mirror

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Tue Dec 13 21:36:51 EST 2016


On 12/13/2016 05:07 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
> Not to go super political on this list - but I'm personally pretty keen
> to preserve climate science related data-sets for future generations (as
> well as our own).  So in that light - wondering if anyone has taken a
> look at this:
> 
> http://climatemirror.org/
> 
> I'm investigating now to see if there are any datasets I can help mirror
> - if anyone else on this list is interested let me know, maybe we can
> make a large scale effort?

Some of these datasets are humongous. Many TB. I wonder about
alternatives to straight-up mirrors. I mean, a 100TB server is a
nontrivial investment. Maybe torrents, IPFS, ...? Or a collaborative
distributed file system. Perhaps using QFS, MFS or LFS?

> -pete
> 



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