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Exascale computing and big data

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Daniel A. Reed,

Jack DongarraAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 58, Issue 7

Pages 56 - 68

https://doi.org/10.1145/2699414

Published: 25 June 2015 Publication History

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Scientific discovery and engineering innovation requires unifying traditionally separated high-performance computing and big data analytics.

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DOI:10.1145/2797100

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