Re: We need to be 1,000 times faster.

[<aah@nofs.navy.mil>]

Some problems with Chris' scheme, though in general
I agree that distributed database processing is what
will be needed.  First, a site such as NOFS or Tom's
6X will produce more data per year than is currently in Michael's
entire database.  If Michael has problems updating it, then
at the same level each site will have problems in maintaining
their own individual database.  Second, while
FITS tables format is certainly a convenient,
standard way to keep data available that might be
needed for queries, such tables are not SQL-accessible
and I wonder how a centralized server could handle them
in an efficient manner.  The total database is not that
much different in size from SDSS.  Let's see what ARNE
brings to the table.  Perhaps the time really has come
to get Microsoft, etc. involved.
Arne