[iDC] The Lure of Internet2

[Brian Holmes]

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