Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: big data
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Big Bata, Big Challenges, Big Opportunities, and the Reification of Consilience
As with any new approach, the combination of big data and machine learning brings both great opportunities and equally grave risks. Let us reason together.
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Come to the Supercomputing Big Data Edge
The brave new world of edge computing and big data has profound implications for the future of high-performance computing. Come to the edge!
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Effervescent Clouds: Nimble Computing Infrastructure
Cloud computing is transformational. Yet in public perception, the cloud is more like a fog, a vaguely understood and amorphous thing.
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Names Matter: The False Dichotomy Between Big Data and HPC
HPC and machine learning are not goals, they are enablers.
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Informatics, Sugar Water and Revolution
If the Anthropocene defines human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems, then the Information Age defines computing’s impact on our own interactions.
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U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on High-Performance Computing
High-performance computing (HPC) is unique among scientific instruments, distinguished by its universality as an intellectual amplifier.