The amount of data that the big cloud computing providers now store ... Microsoft open sourced the algorithm, hardware specification and Verilog source code for how it compresses data in its ...

In 14% of problems, the performance improvements vastly outpaced those that came from improved hardware, with the gains from better algorithms being particularly meaningful for big data problems.

Over the long course of IT history, the burden has been on the software side to keep pace with rapid hardware advances—to ... an FPGA should work well for. “The data dictates the approach. The better ...

* a linear programming problem that would take 82 years to solve in 1988 could be solved in one minute in 2003. Hardware accounted for 1,000 times speedup, while algorithmic advance accounted for ...

What organizations really need is a new software and hardware environment that ... and parallel process advanced analytics algorithms in matter of seconds. Big data needs a computing system ...

Add to this the vibrant big data open source community ... All of these are important, but it's more about how you piece the data, hardware and algorithm together. Isn't that your secret sauce ...

Jimmy is a writer and editor who publishes a weekly newsletter. You can find him on Twitter. When it comes to big data and complex algorithms, state and local governments have barely touched the tip ...

“If we want autonomous robots and advanced algorithms, we need big data,” Hovell said. While there is not much training data for autonomous spacecraft docking, “the amount of data collected ...