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No More Access to Google's Hadoop Cloud For Researchers
Google announced it is ending its Academic Cloud Computing Initiative, a joint program with IBM and the National Science Foundation that gave researchers access...
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Amazon Builds World's Fastest Nonexistent Supercomputer
The 42nd fastest supercomputer on earth doesn’t exist.
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The Tevatron's Enduring Computing Legacy
Few laypeople think of computing innovation in connection with the Tevatron particle accelerator, which shut down earlier this year. Mention of the Tevatron inspires...
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Bouncing Data Would Speed Up Data Centers
Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still has to...
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Mystery Men Forge Servers For Giants of Internet
If you drive down highway 880 from Oakland, Calif., take an exit about 30 miles south, and snake past a long line of car dealerships, you’ll find an ordinary...
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Need a New Material? New Tool Can Help
Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties—whether...
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Improving Security in the Cloud
Weizmann Institute and MIT researchers are moving closer to developing a method for working with data while it is still encrypted, providing an encrypted result...
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Data Mining Without Prejudice
A new technique for finding relationships between variables in large data sets makes no prior assumptions about what those relationships might be.
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Scientists Break World Record For Data-Transfer Speeds
Researchers are claiming a new world record for data transfers over long distances.
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Cities Fail to Recognize Full Potential of Smart Technologies
Opening up data and digital assets is critical to accelerating low-carbon cities, according to a recent University of Nottingham report.
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Computational Modeling For Biotechnology: Predictions For Optimal Production
The BioPreDyn project aims to develop computational tools that integrate and analyze the large amounts of data in biology and biotechnology, focusing on improving...
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Finding Meaning in Massive Datasets
Researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center are exploring data-driven science, and early projects are showing the benefits of using advanced computing to...
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Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth, Say Computer Scientists
Goethe University researchers have found indications of the Weber-Fichner law in the size distribution of Internet files.
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Citizen Scientists
Ordinary people are taking control of their health data, making their DNA public and running their own experiments. Their big question: Why should science be...
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Everything You Need to Know About Carrieriq
"Carrier IQ" is a company that sells software to wireless companies that reports how well networks are performing in real-time, by sending performance data from...
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Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth, Say Computer Scientists
Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce.
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The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'
Businesses keep vast troves of data about things like online shopping behavior, or millions of changes in weather patterns, or trillions of financial transactions—information...
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Following Digital Breadcrumbs to 'big Data' Gold
What do Facebook, Groupon, and biotech firm Human Genome Sciences have in common? They all rely on massive amounts of data to design their products. Terabytes...
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Dna Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data
BGI, based in China, is the world’s largest genomics research institute, with 167 DNA sequencers producing the equivalent of 2,000 human genomes a day.
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