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*Discussed two other interesting public goods or services.
*Discussed two other interesting public goods or services.
**Image registry
**DNA registry - found one article that suggests uncompressed the human genome is between 1.5 and 30 terrabytes but more efficient formats exist that bring it down to 1.5GB
**DNA registry - found one article that suggests uncompressed the human genome is between 1.5 and 30 terrabytes but more efficient formats exist that bring it down to 1.5GB
  http://www.genetic-future.com/2008/06/how-much-data-is-human-genome-it.html  
  http://www.genetic-future.com/2008/06/how-much-data-is-human-genome-it.html  
**Image registry
 


One example paper [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.40.8364&rep=rep1&type=pdf Improving Web Server Performance by Caching Dynamic Data]
One example paper [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.40.8364&rep=rep1&type=pdf Improving Web Server Performance by Caching Dynamic Data]

Revision as of 03:43, 7 March 2011

Members

  • Lester Mundt - lmundt at connect.carleton.ca
  • Fahim Rahman - frahman at connect.carleton.ca
  • Andrew Schoenrock - aschoenr at scs.carleton.ca

Tuesday March 1

Key components:

  • Distributed File System
    • Can use something previously presented in class
  • Distributed computation
  • Administration
    • How much does a person need to contribute to the system?
    • How will users submit (small) services they would like to have run?
    • How can very large services be established (from idea to implementation)?

Todo for March 8th:

    • Find papers on distributed computation and administration

Thursday March 3

  • Seek out papers on specific topic of distributed web cache.
  • Discussed two other interesting public goods or services.
    • Image registry
    • DNA registry - found one article that suggests uncompressed the human genome is between 1.5 and 30 terrabytes but more efficient formats exist that bring it down to 1.5GB
http://www.genetic-future.com/2008/06/how-much-data-is-human-genome-it.html 


One example paper Improving Web Server Performance by Caching Dynamic Data