scale faced by the DoD. Both the systems and data analysis technologies are clearly "dual use." Sensitize the DoD to the potential for technological surprise. An adversary with very modest financial resources could have access to supercomputer-class computer facilities. $100 buys 1000 processors for 1 hour on AWS. $100M considerably less – than the cost of single modern strike fighter – buys one billion processor-hours. Cloud computing must be considered a strategic resource, and it is essential that the stays in the lead in the evolution and application of this technology. Get the DoE to look beyond traditional high-performance computing in carrying out their energy and nuclear weapons missions. Many of their needs could be addressed better and more cost effectively by cluster computing systems, possibly making use of cloud facilities. Encourage the deployment and application of big-data computing in all facets of the government, ranging from the IRS (tax fraud detection), intelligence agencies (multimedia information fusion), the CDC (temporal and geographic tracking of disease outbreaks), and the Census Bureau (population trends). Make fundamental investments in our networking infrastructure to provide ubiquitous, broadband access to end users and to cloud facilities. Big-data computing is perhaps the biggest innovation in computing in the last decade. We have only begun to see its potential to collect, organize, and process data in all walks of life. A modest investment by the federal government could greatly accelerate its development and deployment.
scale faced by the DoD. Both the systems and data analysis technologies are clearly "dual use." Sensitize the DoD to the potential for technological surprise. An adversary with very modest financial resources could have access to supercomputer-class computer facilities. $100 buys 1000 processors for 1 hour on AWS. $100M – considerably less than the cost of single modern strike fighter – buys one billion processor-hours. Cloud computing must be considered a strategic resource, and it is essential that the stays in the lead in the evolution and application of this technology. Get the DoE to look beyond traditional high-performance computing in carrying out their energy and nuclear weapons missions. Many of their needs could be addressed better and more cost effectively by cluster computing systems, possibly making use of cloud facilities. Encourage the deployment and application of big-data computing in all facets of the government, ranging from the IRS (tax fraud detection), intelligence agencies (multimedia information fusion), the CDC (temporal and geographic tracking of disease outbreaks), and the Census Bureau (population trends). Make fundamental investments in our networking infrastructure to provide ubiquitous, broadband access to end users and to cloud facilities. Big-data computing is perhaps the biggest innovation in computing in the last decade. We have only begun to see its potential to collect, organize, and process data in all walks of life. A modest investment by the federal government could greatly accelerate its development and deployment.
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