Tag: nasa
Exascale Storage Targets Big Data Archives
With exascale computing comes the requirement for exascale storage. Such a storage platform has emerged in the form of what is touted as the largest capacity tape storage library aimed initially at media and entertainmen Read more…
NASA Confirms 715 New Exoplanets from Kepler Data Haul
Astronomy is one of the more data-intensive sciences, as we have explored before. A new study from NASA highlights the importance of techniques that can keep pace with all that data. Read more…
NetApp Supplements Curiosity Data Flow
NetApp’s Richard Bliss noted that his company teamed up with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA to fulfill the mission’s data needs. In particular, NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz and Nguyen discussed a new data-intensive technique that was set up for the Curiosity landing. Read more…
Amazon Accelerates NASA’s Search for Life on Mars
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses Amazon Web Services to aid data processing in their Curiosity and other Mars rover missions. The cloud-based Amazon service helps boost NASA computing power during the small windows in the day that the space program can contact their rovers. Read more…
NASA Aims High with Airline Data
NASA has harnessed a wealth of information for an ambitious project targeting airlines. To achieve their goals, they've pulled from molecular data on the aircraft materiel, sensor data, software data, and even data on the physical condition of pilots for a sophisticated.... Read more…
NASA Resource Brings Big Science Data Home
This week NASA announced enhancements to its way to showcase the results of big data visualizations of Earth, the Sun and our universe for users on the move. With the extensions and new capabilities that have been tacked on to the existing... Read more…