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Tarun here to fill you in on the geekiest of the geeky. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego surpassed the illusive “terabyte barrier” when they sorted a terabyte (which is 1,000 GB) of data in just sixty seconds. UC computer scientists also tied a world record for fastest data sorting rate in which they sorted one trillion data records in 172 minutes all the while using only a a fourth of the computing power of the other record holder. I’m starting to get envious of these nerds as large file transfers on my computer can sometimes last upwards of forty-five minutes.
Now if you’re a big time company looking to take your web presence even more prevalent, you might want to keep an eye out for these new emerging technologies that will allow users to access data more efficiently.
“If a major corporation wants to run a query across all of their page views or products sold, that can require a sort across a multi-petabyte dataset and one that is growing by many gigabytes every day,” said UC San Diego computer science professor Amin Vahda. “Companies are pushing the limit on how much data they can sort, and how fast. This is data analytics in real time.”
Although what Vahda and crew are doing over at UC might seem tedious and boring, their innovations are pointing towards the future of computing. It might be a competition for them, but it’s win win for consumers everywhere.
Read [BioScholar]
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