In this chapter, we define data-intensive computing, identify the challenges of massive data, outline solutions for hardware, software, and analytics, and discuss a number of applications in the areas of biology, cyber security, and atmospheric research.
In the sixth century the town was very deliberately abandoned: the many wells were tumbled in, and the land gradually reverted to green fields, the buried town marked only by the jagged outline of massive walls which once formed a 1.5-mile circuit.
After the opening statements, prosecutors introduced evidence, including handwritten notes seized after Bout's arrest that appeared to outline a massive order of weaponry, including rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 machine guns.
The propodi are sub-oval in antero-posterior outline, very massive and large, at least twice as long as the dactyli and wider than the dactyli are long.
Patient-to-patient variation in loss of coagulation activity is high, but one can use the above information to outline a massive transfusion protocol that supports timely assessment and delivery of blood components in a manner that is designed to prevent rather than 'catch up' with coagulopathy [ 18].
The leaks, first published in the Guardian newspaper, outlined a massive operation that became operational in 2011, using intercept hardware on the fibre-optic cables that make up the 'backbone' of the internet to directly sift traffic from around the world.
Something massive — documents and images outlining what appears to be a new Facebook iPhone app built around photo sharing.
It's so much easier when a scrapbook outlining a massive company's next killer product just curls up in your lap.
He outlined the massive investment that has been poured into Japanese science over the past 5 years in the government's first basic plan for science and technology, which ended in 2000.
He was much influenced by the works of the earlier Brescian school, particularly those of G.P. Maggini, whom he followed in the boldness of outline and the massive construction that aim at the production of tone, rather than visual perfection of form.
