Management Information System

An international ad-hoc group of climatologists and oceanographers needs to set up a system to analyze massive amounts of data on ocean temperatures, collected hourly by hundreds of ships worldwide. The technology and hardware for gathering the data and transmitting the data to a computer is in place. What additional hardware might they need? What techniques might they use to make their research more efficient and lower cost?

Some sort of distributed file system would probably be fitting.. Unfortunately, I think there’s going to be some custom programming involved. Something based on a Distributed Hash Table might work well.