Michel, 29, and his collaborator, Erez Lieberman Aiden, also of Harvard, have been making headlines from their use of powerful computational algorithms to data-mine archives of books, encyclopedia volumes, and dictionaries going back centuries.
Thus, the cloud and endpoint work together, creating the most efficient means of gathering data, doing computational work, sending information, and preparing data for users to look at, listen to, and even feel.
It provides an infrastructure that allows sharing of dynamic collections of computational systems, large data storage and other remote facilities that an individual may use.
The Center for Computational Materials Science and Engineering Data is an effort by ASM International to define protocols collecting, disseminating, and managing materials data.
"Then we use some very elegant maths which was developed in computational imaging to turn that data into a 2D picture, " he told the Science podcast.
Using advanced computational techniques capable of analyzing streaming data from sensors across the grid in near real-time enable more dynamic monitoring of the entire power system across large geographic areas, and offers the potential to reach even higher levels of performance and cost-effectiveness through improved situational awareness.
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Big Data is any data that requires massively parallel computational techniques to handle.
All told, nearly three-quarters of the servers in the sample were using less than 10 percent of their computational brainpower, on average, to process data.
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But the long-term aim is to construct computational models of specific diseases based on the data being monitored, says Mark Spire, who is the president of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners and a member of the Kansas State team.
Instead of relying only on the literature, we can and should develop and utilize computational methods to reverse engineer disease pathways from observational data, followed by simulated therapeutic interventions that will guide real treatments (see Figure 1 here).
With Big Data, we are now entering the era when we will measure every data point, and then have the tools and computational power to crunch the resulting terabytes to find the secrets that lie within.
First, the necessary data analysis will be a daunting task, requiring new computational methods.
When we hear about big data "solutions, " they tend to focus on computational approaches -- storage, search and processing -- with human intuition largely absent.
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