Working with 220GB of remote data. help

[webmasterp]

Here's my scenario.

There are 220+ GB of data on a computer at my office. This data is the data I need to process and graph.

However, the machine that does the web serving (where the output of these graphs will end up) only has 173 GB andf I really shouldn't take up everyone's space.

So, I need a way to parse these files dyamically and get their output without downloading the files locally.

How would I go about remotely running a program my C and PERL programs on the data and then getting the result file back and store it locally?

I have a login and password for the remote machine too if that matters.

[webmasterp]

I found a way around my problem.

But if you have a solution to this question, I'd still like to hear it for future reference.