We recently completed a computation of Pi to 100 trillion digits that left us with a single 100TB output file. We wanted to hang on to the data, the cloud is an obvious fit for this need. So we reached out to Amazon to snag a few of their AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices with 80TB of capacity each.The goal was to get our data from the lab in Cincinnati to an S3 bucket in AWS us-east-2 region as fast as possible.
Full Snowball Edge Article -
https://www.storagereview.com/review/getting-data-to-the-cloud-faster-with-aws-snowball-edge-devices
AWS Snow Podcast -
https://www.storagereview.com/podcast/106-aws-snow-family-deep-dive
100T Pi Computation Details -
https://www.storagereview.com/review/storagereview-calculated-100-trillion-digits-of-pi-in-54-days-besting-google-cloud
Pi Video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn1yrzEs4Q0&t=7s
Discord Server -
https://discord.com/invite/TwMHb4azdC