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        Experiences Acquiring and Distributing a Large Scientific Database

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        Xiang, Helen X.
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        In recent years volumes of scientific data and of scientific databases have increased tremendously. Distributing a database across multiple sites is one possible solution to the problem of managing growing data. We address some practical aspects of distributing a large scientific database - the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) database. As a preliminary, we also describe how we acquired the SDSS data and set up a mirror site. The architecture of our Grid-based distributed database system is presented
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        2008
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        Procs 2008 2nd Int Conf on Future Generation Communication and Networking Symposia
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        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/13792
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