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Posted on: October 23, 2009 1:04 PM, by Dave Bacon
Via the arXiv api newsgroup comes the rumor that soon, perhaps, the arXiv will be available for full download sometime in the future:
or a full copy of (or particular subsets of) PDF for arXiv papers, we are in the process of setting up a service in the Cloud, which will offer the option for bulk download. I'll let you know when thatCool! All of physics since
becomes available.
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> Cool! All of physics since recorded arXiv time on my hard
> drive :)
But then that defeats the point of cloud computing.
Posted by: Ian Durham | October 23, 2009 1:28 PM
Sure it sounds good, but who would want to have *all* the "papers" in the General Physics section?
Posted by: S.C. Kavassalis | October 23, 2009 1:29 PM
Why hasn't this been available as a torrent for years? Does that count as the "cloud."
Oh well, at least the archive will be buzzword-compliant.
Posted by: John Smolin | October 23, 2009 2:34 PM
I consulted my handy dictionary of cloud computing and a torrent is not cloud computing.
That said I think Larry Ellison is dead wrong about cloud computing and doesn't "get it", so I actually think that the real "cloud" is an important development (and the word is rapidly being used in a way that entirely misses the point.)
Posted by: Dave Bacon | October 23, 2009 2:49 PM
This seems the best reason yet to get an ebook reader.
Posted by: Joe Fitzsimons | October 24, 2009 8:21 AM
Not all of physics: there are still physicists who refuse to publish on the arXiv for ideological reasons (whatever they may be, I have never understood them).
Posted by: Pieter Kok | October 24, 2009 9:34 AM
John & Dave: is the entire Arxiv collection truly available via BitTorrent? that would still use a non-HTTP protocol, but then at least someone could put it on a webserver ;)
Posted by: Mike Chelen | November 2, 2009 1:39 AM
An (outdated) versions of (some) of the arXiv was available a while back, but last I check I couldn't locate it (the webpage describing it is gone.)
Posted by: Dave Bacon | November 2, 2009 11:26 AM