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Moving from petaflops to petadata

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 56, Issue 5

Pages 39 - 42

https://doi.org/10.1145/2447976.2447989

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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.

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Moving from petaflops to petadata
1. General and reference
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2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Process management
    2. Extra-functional properties
      1. Software performance

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May 2013

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DOI:10.1145/2447976

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