The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a ...

Success can be its own kind of punishment in this world. Since the dawn of modern computing 130 years ago with tabulating machines derived from looms, there have always been issues of scale when it ...

A new distributed computing framework for data analysis enables neuroscientists to meet the computational demands of modern experimental technologies. Thunder, via the underlying Spark engine, handles ...