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Big Data Meets Big Science.

The article focuses on the limitations of massively parallel computing in the analysis of data from next-generation scientific instruments. It states that powerful large-scale scientific instruments, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope which is scheduled to go live in 2020, produce more data...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 7; pp. 13 - 16
Main Author: Wright, Alex
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2014
Subjects:
Parallel computers
Scientific apparatus & instruments
Science databases
Big data
Cloud computing
Quantum computing
Algorithms
Moore's law
Aaronson, Scott
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost