Moving from petaflops to petadata
Open Access
- 1 May 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 56 (5) , 39-42
Abstract
The race to build ever-faster supercomputers is on, with more contenders than ever before. However, the current goals set for this race may not lead to the fastest computation for particular applications.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (iii44006)
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