[iDC] The Lure of Internet2

Brian Holmes brian.holmes at wanadoo.fr
Fri Feb 17 13:36:33 EST 2006


John Hopkins wrote:

 > Scientists (for example, researchers at NOAA in Boulder),
 > have been tossing around HUGE datafiles for (2) decades --
 > mostly for distributed processing purposes.  I2 helps this
 > process -- bigger data files to more accurately predict
 > the beginning of Global toasting due to the emissions of
 > giant consumptive petroleum and extractive infrastructures
 > upon which clean and elite infrastructures like I2 sit.


Hard to put it any more concisely than that I'd say!

Cheers from the stone age, BH






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