Distributing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Using UDT and Sector
Yunhong Gu, Robert L. Grossman, Alexander S. Szalay, Ani Thakar · 2006
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.