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Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (2012)

43 points by jbr 13y ago

conroy 13y ago
Other companies with projects named PRISM: Palantir https://docs.palantir.com/metropolisdev/prism-overview.html https://docs.palantir.com/metropolisdev/prism-overview.html Mozilla (inactive) https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/ https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/ CriticalBlue http://www.criticalblue.com/prism-technology.html http://www.criticalblue.com/prism-technology.html Goodwill http://www.goodwilltalentbridge.com/tb/projectPrism.aspx http://www.goodwilltalentbridge.com/tb/projectPrism.aspx Universities with projects named PRISM: Texas Tech http://www.texastech.edu/it/prism.aspx http://www.texastech.edu/it/prism.aspx Georgia Tech http://pag.gatech.edu/prism http://pag.gatech.edu/prism Princeton http://www.princeton.edu/prism/industry/industrial_affiliate/ http://www.princeton.edu/prism/industry/industrial_affiliate... While many of these projects have nothing to do with technology, they illustrate a point: PRISM was a great name for a project. The fact that Facebook has a "Project Prism" too is just coincidence.
- dualogy 13y ago
  > PRISM is a great name for a project ---or was.
  - conroy 13y ago
    Agreed, I can't think of any tech company naming a project PRISM again, even if it's internal.
    - kristopolous 13y ago
      Oh I totally will. Back in the PPro days I called the project to get the workstations cointelpro - and I was just a snippy highschool kid then. I'm totally going to do this.
- Brock_Lee 13y ago
  Also, I doubt that the NSA told Facebook that their surveillance project was called PRISM.
- wavesounds 13y ago
  Palantir is the one that still sticks out the most though. They work for the CIA and their Prism technology is essentially the same as the one in the slides 'combining databases from different sources.' I know they've denied it and Peter Thiel would never do that and all but thats still one heck of a coincidence.
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cldr 13y ago
> The result is a platform that can juggle as much as 100 petabytes of data — aka hundreds of millions of gigabytes No more than 105 million gigabytes actually.
bparsons 13y ago
Uhhhhhhhhhh
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davenull 13y ago
Unfortunate they chose that name for a project involving spanning datacenters with high-speed fiber connection.
siddboots 13y ago
If nothing else, this makes it rather amusing to think of how confused the engineers behind 'Project Prism' must have been when the first PRISM leaks were revealed.

43 points by jbr 13y ago

Other companies with projects named PRISM: Palantir https://docs.palantir.com/metropolisdev/prism-overview.html https://docs.palantir.com/metropolisdev/prism-overview.html Mozilla (inactive) https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/ https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/ CriticalBlue http://www.criticalblue.com/prism-technology.html http://www.criticalblue.com/prism-technology.html Goodwill http://www.goodwilltalentbridge.com/tb/projectPrism.aspx http://www.goodwilltalentbridge.com/tb/projectPrism.aspx Universities with projects named PRISM: Texas Tech http://www.texastech.edu/it/prism.aspx http://www.texastech.edu/it/prism.aspx Georgia Tech http://pag.gatech.edu/prism http://pag.gatech.edu/prism Princeton http://www.princeton.edu/prism/industry/industrial_affiliate/ http://www.princeton.edu/prism/industry/industrial_affiliate... While many of these projects have nothing to do with technology, they illustrate a point: PRISM was a great name for a project. The fact that Facebook has a "Project Prism" too is just coincidence.

dualogy 13y ago
> PRISM is a great name for a project ---or was.
- conroy 13y ago
  Agreed, I can't think of any tech company naming a project PRISM again, even if it's internal.
  - kristopolous 13y ago
    Oh I totally will. Back in the PPro days I called the project to get the workstations cointelpro - and I was just a snippy highschool kid then. I'm totally going to do this.
Brock_Lee 13y ago
Also, I doubt that the NSA told Facebook that their surveillance project was called PRISM.
wavesounds 13y ago
Palantir is the one that still sticks out the most though. They work for the CIA and their Prism technology is essentially the same as the one in the slides 'combining databases from different sources.' I know they've denied it and Peter Thiel would never do that and all but thats still one heck of a coincidence.
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cldr 13y ago

> The result is a platform that can juggle as much as 100 petabytes of data — aka hundreds of millions of gigabytes No more than 105 million gigabytes actually.

bparsons 13y ago

Uhhhhhhhhhh

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davenull 13y ago

Unfortunate they chose that name for a project involving spanning datacenters with high-speed fiber connection.

siddboots 13y ago

If nothing else, this makes it rather amusing to think of how confused the engineers behind 'Project Prism' must have been when the first PRISM leaks were revealed.