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“ eREc can store data of any scale , with 7,100 processors serving 3.7 petabytes of storage – and capacity can be increased at any time to meet needs ,” he says . “ We called it ‘ Facebook for Researchers ’ as we can automatically enable where researchers share their open data , and then gain more collaborative viewpoints and analytical viewpoints on it .
“ The university ’ s researchers can move 30GB of data overnight from the International Marine Observatory System ( IMOS ) between the campus and the mainland . They transport the fifth highest volume of Australian cloud super computations .”
Murray , who is also the chair of the Advisory Committee for Australia ’ s Academic and Research Network ( AARNet ), reveals eREc ’ s biggest users come from the main Australian states , explaining : “ Our system in an automated way interprets the metadata , the tags on that data , just like your tag on Twitter , and shares it – so when people are looking for datasets in the marine observatory system , those tags queue their search in and bring them right down to the right place in our information set .
“ We ’ ve seamlessly provided huge datasets to the world in a collaborative way that enable our researchers to pick rich partnerships with other researchers working in that space . Then they can move towards solving vexing global problems together .”
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