Him Gray
July 23, 2003 08:09 PM
A Conversation with Jim Gray:
In the old days, sneaker net was the notion that you would pull out floppy disks, run across the room in your sneakers, and plug the floppy into another machine. This is just TeraScale SneakerNet. You write your terabytes onto this thing and ship it out to your pals. The Internet plans to be running at gigabit speeds, but if you experiment with your desktop now, I think you’ll find that it runs at a megabyte a second or less. I can send it via UPS anywhere in the U.S. That turns out to be about seven megabytes per second.
