For science, big data is the microscope of the 21st century - GigaOM | Big Data Research | Scoop.it

Johns Hopkins is taking a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a 100 gigabit per second network to shuttle data from the campus to other large computing centers at national labs and even at Google. The network will be capable of transferring an amount of data equivalent to 80 million file cabinets filled with text each day.

 

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