Distributing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Using UDT and Sector

  • Authors:
  • Yunhong Gu;Robert L. Grossman;Alex Szalay;Ani Thakar

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Chicago, USA;University of Illinois at Chicago, USA;The Johns Hopkins University, USA;The Johns Hopkins University, USA

  • Venue:
  • E-SCIENCE '06 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

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.