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minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 hours agoJust a couple of years ago I was sent a dataset by mail, around 1TB on a hard drive. Later I worked on visualization of large datasets, we didn’t have the space to store them locally because they were up to a PB.
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 hours agoMail dataset in standard-compliant way. Like RFC1149. Don’t forget that carrier should be avian carrier. we didn’t have the space to store them locally because they were up to a PB. Local is very vague word. It can be argued, that anything, that doesn’t fit into L1 cache is not local.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 hours agoWe’re storing data in peanut butter? Please tell me there’s jam involved. /j it’s amazing we’re talking about petabytes. My first computer had like 600 meg. (Pentium 486 cobbled out of spare- old- parts from my dad’s junk”Parts” rack.)
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 hours ago😁 ya my first “computer” was a ZX-81 with 1kB of ram, type too much and it was full! A card with a whopping 16kB later came to the rescue. It’s been a wild time in history.
Just a couple of years ago I was sent a dataset by mail, around 1TB on a hard drive.
Later I worked on visualization of large datasets, we didn’t have the space to store them locally because they were up to a PB.
Mail dataset in standard-compliant way. Like RFC1149. Don’t forget that carrier should be avian carrier.
Local is very vague word. It can be argued, that anything, that doesn’t fit into L1 cache is not local.
We’re storing data in peanut butter? Please tell me there’s jam involved.
/j it’s amazing we’re talking about petabytes. My first computer had like 600 meg. (Pentium 486 cobbled out of spare- old- parts from my dad’s
junk”Parts” rack.)😁 ya my first “computer” was a ZX-81 with 1kB of ram, type too much and it was full! A card with a whopping 16kB later came to the rescue.
It’s been a wild time in history.