2009/2/25 Brian <[email protected]>: > 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. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
