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Don't forget about engineers and medical research. Moving data off-site for processing isn't always an option. Even when it is, there is money to be saved by ru
by rch 13y ago
Don't forget about engineers and medical research. Moving data off-site for processing isn't always an option. Even when it is, there is money to be saved by running sub-sampled data locally and prototyping models before scaling up.
I'm getting a 12 core asap, but eager for more compute-focused options.
- mathattack 13y agoWhy wouldn't it be theoretically possible to move the data off-site? Too big? Again I'm assuming there is some seamless way for the operating system to treat off-machine cores and in-machine cores.
- rch 13y agoMostly just policy around certain types of data. That people who complain about such policies are also willing to e-mail around zip files is beside the point. Edit: it seems like I read about certain algorithms that could perform calculations without direct knowledge of the underlying data, but I can't find a link. It only worked for a specific class of problems in any case.
- Someone 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
- rch 13y agoThanks!
- mathattack 13y agook - so this is just for the corporate environment that there would be these issues? But couldn't they just have a similar getup sending all their processing to their own data center in the background? My intuition has us going back to the dumb terminal mode, albeit with a very fancy screen.