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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. The German startup SimScale makes use of this trend.

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Top 10 Transformational Impacts of the Cloud in 2013

Cloud Musings

outsourcing countries in a rapid and notable fashion. At the moment, I'm looking for bloggers and contributors for a storage, cloud computing and big data website. We want this website to be a thriving community of experts generating conversations on big data, cloud computing and storage virtualization.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Next up, Krzanich talks about a fashion bracelet that can retrieve textual information from your cell phone and display it. The bracelet was displayed at the opening ceremony of the NYC fashion show last week. He shows off a demo of Skylake as well as a hardware reference platform for Skylake playing full 4K video.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure Part 2.

Fountainhead

It highlights, albeit in a stylized fashion, just how many point-products an average-sized IT department is using. Capital cost – if you count all of the separate hardware components they’re trying to manage. That last bullet, the thing about hardware components, is also something to drill down into. Big Data. (6).

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

This lead to the birth of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which was focused on providing a very fine grained parallel model, with processing organized in multiple stages, where the data would flow through. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She holds 20 years of international professional experience in a wide range of organizations, including forecasting publications firms, fashion designers, libraries, and materials companies. Twitter: @Fstyles. Lidewij Edelkoort. Location: Paris, France. In 2004, she joined trend forecasting company WGSN.

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