It looks really interesting, and although at the moment it all looks a bit academic and probably requires a ton of processing time, but remember, that's how Photosynth started and now it's totally usable and has a growing community.
He paused and continued, "There's a ton of processing in seismic trace data and images.
Graphics processing units let developers run a ton of image processing tasks in parallel.
However, POET would first have to overcome technical hurdles in scaling up its production from the current pilot project, which processes one ton of plant matter per day, to a plant capable of processing 700 tons of biomass a day.
So Mapbox is also processing tons of data on its own.
Instead of an enormous machine processing tons of coffee at a time, a collection of small freeze dryers are employed.
"The traditional social analytics companies like Radian6 have really set the market standard for collecting and processing tons of data around your topic profiles, keywords and so on," he said.
The company owns a crushing mill in Krabi province with a processing capacity of up to 360,000 tons of FFB per annum or 60 tons per hour, while the palm kernel expeller plant is capable of processing up to 26,500 metric tons of PK per annum.
In an effort to hasten the sale, the city has reached out to hundreds of salvage companies it thought might be capable of processing the many tons of material.
