Name: 【TED-Ed】Big Data - Tim Smith
Uploaded: 2014-03-14T15:49:14.000Z
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It represents an amount of digital information,

that it overwhelms the technologies of the day

and challenges us to create the next generation

In fact, physicists at CERN have been wrangling

with the challenge of their ever-expanding big data for decades.

Fifty years ago, CERN's data could be stored

physicists from around the world traveled to CERN

was distributed across different sets of computers,

But physicists collaborated without regard

hence needed to access data on all of these.

So, we bridged the independent networks together

In the 1980's, islands of similar networks

sprung up all over Europe and the States,

making remote access possible but torturous.

To make it easy for our physicists across the world

We adopted the fledgling internet working standard from the States,

and we established the principal link at CERN

and write papers in their home institutes.

Then, they wanted to share their findings

in order to find it and access it on the web,

and has transformed the way we communicate

outstripped our capability to analyze it at CERN,

despite having buildings full of computers.

We had to start distributing the petabytes of data

in order to employ local computing and storage

In order to orchestrate these interconnected resources

This relies on trust relationships and mutual exchange.

But this grid model could not be transferred

where not everyone has resources to share

Instead, an alternative, more business-like approach

which other communities are now exploiting

It might seem paradoxical for a place like CERN,

of the unimaginably small building blocks of matter,

to be the source of something as big as big data.

But the way we study the fundamental particles,

as well as the forces by which they interact,

taking a picture of each collision event -

that's up to 14 millions times per second.

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【TED-Ed】Big Data - Tim Smith

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