Academic Torrents
open-dataresearchdatasetsbittorrentdistributed-systems
Abstraction: BitTorrent-based distributed repository for sharing large research datasets
Key points:
- Distributed system designed by and for researchers to share enormous datasets at scale
- Built on academic BitTorrent infrastructure for globally distributed, free data hosting
- Designed to be scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant with fast download speeds
- Ensures data availability permanently for public datasets at no cost to researchers
- Solves the problem of hosting large datasets that are too big for traditional web hosting
Connections: Academic Torrents · Open Data · Distributed Systems · Research Data Sharing
Source: http://academictorrents.com/