FedExNet - Transferring huge amounts of data, turns out that the best way currently is to get a bunch of big cheap SATA disks, put them in a cheap PC and FedEx the whole thing. Very interesting.

We did a similar thing as crystallographers when we went to synchrotrons, besides the crystals, we'd often bring a USB or Firewire harddrive and hook it up to their servers.

I wonder, with the new infrastructure Google is putting into place with all those huge datacenters, why don't they just put in a fat pipe into the universities they're collaborating with?