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Petabyte Scale Data Mining: Dream or Reality?

Overview Science is becoming very data intensive. The astronomy datasets with tens of millions of galaxies already present substantial challenges for data mining. In less than 10 years the catalogs are expected to grow to billions of objects, and image archives will reach Petabytes. Imagine having a 100GB database in 1996, when disk scanning speeds were 30MB/s, and database tools were immature. Such a task today is trivial, almost manageable with a laptop. This paper concludes that the task scales rather well: they could do the job today, although it would be expensive. There do not seem to be any show-stoppers that would prevent them from storing and using a Petabyte dataset six years from today.

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PublisherJohns Hopkins University File FormatPDF
Date PublishedDecember 2002
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