By: Chris Preimesberger, eWeek
At the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Intel outlined a plan to use its MIC foundation to provide widespread exascale-type computing for parallel applications within nine years. As mind-boggling as it seems, it’s only a matter of several years before enterprises will be dealing with exabyte-level data stores. That’s correct: storage of billions of billions of bytes in on-site disks and in the cloud. High-definition video and data cargo from scientific research projects, health care imaging, and oil and gas exploration data stores are leading the way here.
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