South African students are supercomputing champions

Congrats !! - SA kicking World Powers

I'm sure there must be a MYBB member in that group
Lets hear it straight from the battlefield - anyone ?
 
Too bad it's littered with ignorant statements like these:
SKA South Africa project director Bernie Fanaroff has said that the SKA will generate more raw data in one week than human kind has created in its entire existence.
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Does he know how much data human kind has created in its existence?
 
Swa said:
Too bad it's littered with ignorant statements like these:

Does he know how much data human kind has created in its existence?
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Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003

Today at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, the first panel featured Google CEO Eric Schmidt. As moderator David Kirkpatrick was introducing him, he rattled off a massive stat.

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003, according to Schmidt. That’s something like five exabytes of data, he says.

Let me repeat that: we create as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003.

“The real issue is user-generated content,” Schmidt said. He noted that pictures, instant messages, and tweets all add to this.

Naturally, all of this information helps Google. But he cautioned that just because companies like his can do all sorts of things with this information, the more pressing question now is if they should. Schmidt noted that while technology is neutral, he doesn’t believe people are ready for what’s coming.

“I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon,” Schmidt said.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/schmidt-data/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data
 
Swa said:
Too bad it's littered with ignorant statements like these:

Does he know how much data human kind has created in its existence?
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The amount of data created since the first computer came about? PLus or minus a couple petabytes.
 
Swa said:
Too bad it's littered with ignorant statements like these:

Does he know how much data human kind has created in its existence?
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From Schmidt's statement I take that this is data and not knowledge or information.
He refers to user data, and from what I see on youTube something like 80 to 90% is either rubbish, no good to anyone, and duplications.
Once we look at useful information and knowledge the picture must look quite different.
 
markings said:
From Schmidt's statement I take that this is data and not knowledge or information.
He refers to user data, and from what I see on youTube something like 80 to 90% is either rubbish, no good to anyone, and duplications.
Once we look at useful information and knowledge the picture must look quite different.
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No, I think by "raw data" they mean actual measurable information - bits in other words. Including duplicated information (be it digital, printed, whatever). It's a very vague statement but still points to a significant number crunching requirement.
 
this is absolutely awesome! well done team SA you've done us proud :D

we need more news like this, this has really made my day.
 
Just glad their EC2 cluster and internet connection did not go down during the benchmark... :D
 
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