Distributing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Using UDT and Sector

In this paper, we describe a peer-to-peer storage system called Sector that is designed to access and transport large data sets over wide area high performance networks. We also describe our recent experience using Sector to distribute the Sloan Digital Sky Survey BESTDR4 catalog data.

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Main Authors:	Gu, Yunhong, Grossman, Robert L., Szalay, Alex, Thakar, Ani
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Access protocols Authentication Bandwidth Data mining Data security Drives Peer to peer computing Resource management Sockets Web services
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Summary:	In this paper, we describe a peer-to-peer storage system called Sector that is designed to access and transport large data sets over wide area high performance networks. We also describe our recent experience using Sector to distribute the Sloan Digital Sky Survey BESTDR4 catalog data.