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Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.
The biggest of these data factories are packed with 400, 000 servers and consume 250 megawatts of power, half the output of a small nuclear power plant.
These drives are packed with a daunting amount of data: production schedules, marketing strategies, departmental budgets, financial projections.
The secret to packing that much information on such small real estate--about 15 times denser than the densest data storage device currently in existence--is self-assembly, or tricking the disk's materials into organizing into an array of data-storing dots packed far tighter than what could be accomplished with current techniques.
These boxes took in low-speed, asynchronous data from the field and packed it into high-speed (9600 bits per second, it seems quaint now) synchronous trunks.
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Along with lawyers, policy wonks and consultants, the room was packed with seasoned old coppers eagerly discussing "comparative assessment tools", "turning data into insight" and "mainstreaming".
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But Kaggle has packed crowdsourcing with a creative punch by applying the collaborative method to, of all things: data-science.
But the digital nature of that data makes it much easier to sift through and analyze than, say, a bunch of files packed in cardboard boxes.
Data showing the drug actually works as well as existing chemotherapy for colon cancer was presented to a packed auditorium at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology.
It is also tricky to capture the data in the field and stick the bar-code labels on the produce as it is picked and packed.
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