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Stanford-based CIO studies how to retrieve research data FCW.com, BY Sarita Chourey, May 2, 2005

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- As with many great ideas, some of the earliest thinking that led to the Huge Memory System -- a way to access vast amounts of data -- took place in the shower. In this case, the shower was located in Silicon Valley and belonged to Richard Mount, a scientist educated at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.

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Mount and other Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) officials have proposed building a national facility this year that would store 30 terabytes of data.

Mount said his invention, the Huge Memory System, is another step in the evolution of data storage. By shifting from a disc-based system to a memory-based one, scientists can analyze volumes of data in record time, he said.

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