報導：美國情報界想用DNA作下一個數據儲存庫
REPORT: The U.S. intelligence community wants to use DNA as the next data storage trove
REPORT: The U.S. intelligence community wants to use DNA as the next data storage trove
August 12, 2018
The amount of electronic data we generate every year is quickly outstripping the capacity of the latest storage systems. The U.S. intelligence community wants a new storage material that can accomodate all that data. In an article on Live Science, they are looking into a rather concerning source that is known to store dense amounts of data: Human DNA.
In a recent announcement, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) called on interested researchers to participate in its Molecular Information Storage program. The agency expressed its interest in a storage system that uses sequence-controlled polymers to store huge amounts of data. These bio-inspired polymers will be based off human DNA.
Should they accept the offer, research teams would undertake two jobs. The first task is to create a tabletop device that can write data on polymers for long-term storage. The second objective is to build another device that can read the information stored on the first device. Participating teams must also come up with an operating system (OS) that can organize, access, and find data within the network.
The Molecular Information Storage program will run for four years. By the time it ends, the final polymer-based system must be able to write one terabyte of data per day.
The device also needs to be able to read ten times that much data on a daily basis. For comparison, a terabyte of data is one thousand gigabytes, which is four times the biggest storage capacity option for the latest iPhone X.
Furthermore, the winning participant should also present a means of developing an even more powerful exabyte-level version of the polymer-based data storage and reading devices over the next 10 years. An exabyte is four million times bigger than the iPhone X’s biggest storage system.
Should they accept the offer, research teams would undertake two jobs. The first task is to create a tabletop device that can write data on polymers for long-term storage. The second objective is to build another device that can read the information stored on the first device. Participating teams must also come up with an operating system (OS) that can organize, access, and find data within the network.
The Molecular Information Storage program will run for four years. By the time it ends, the final polymer-based system must be able to write one terabyte of data per day.
The device also needs to be able to read ten times that much data on a daily basis. For comparison, a terabyte of data is one thousand gigabytes, which is four times the biggest storage capacity option for the latest iPhone X.
Furthermore, the winning participant should also present a means of developing an even more powerful exabyte-level version of the polymer-based data storage and reading devices over the next 10 years. An exabyte is four million times bigger than the iPhone X’s biggest storage system.
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