The first successful big data technology was enterprise data warehouses that implement massively parallel processing, scale to the petabytes, handle batch and real-time latencies with equal agility, and provide connectors to structured and unstructured sources.
Altair Nanotechnologies is working with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute and the University of Hawaii to supply a 2 megawatt energy storage system to maintain grid stability, all using its nano-scale processing technology that it says provides rapid charging.
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MapReduce is important in the scheme of big data because it allows processing of analytics at a large scale while abstracting the complexities of doing this processing.
More importantly, the subsea smart grid set the stage for large-scale subsea processing, which would reduce the costs of developing deep-sea fields dramatically.
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This is the way large web operations such as Google and Facebook manage Internet-scale data processing, although the Web players tend to take a do-it-yourself approach based on internally developed or open-source software.
The fact that Google dominates the search business just reflects the economies of scale that come from processing billions of consumer information requests a day and using those queries to better refine search results.
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Small-scale manufacturing activity features the processing of peanuts, fish, and hides.
People put Bank of New York in a deal with JPMorgan Chase because the two are among the largest in securities processing, a business that depends on scale for profitability.
The Internet tilts the tables in favor of digital processing power, bandwidth and software products that scale.
Most of this material has value to it, if aggregated in the proper way so that economies of scale can kick in and provide cost effective re-processing potential.
The agency has said to reduce its headcount, it would need to scale back operations, including changes to Saturday delivery and closing processing plants.
But parallel processing proved to be much easier to describe than to execute on a commercial scale.
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