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Since 1995, advances in technology have led to a number of consumer electronics emerging and entering millions of homes around the world. Smart devices and the high-speed broadband connections that link them to the internet are now ubiquitous features of contemporary life.
Open-Source Supports Decentralized Supercomputer Capabilities
How Open-Source Software Powered MapReduce Works
MapReduce first takes data sets and transforms them into more manageable sets of data, which accounts for the mapping part of its name. After mapping, a reduce function then creates smaller sets of data. In this process, data sets are always mapped then reduced, hence the nomenclature.
An example of MapReduce in action includes facilitating researchers’ high-throughput analysis of files from next-generation sequencing (NGS) for the sake of developing innovative COVID therapies. The mapper will sort targeted sequences from unsorted data in each file, and then the output returned from mapping each of these files is reduced to the most relevant information targeted.
Although it was first developed to run in conjunction with the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, MapReduce’s open-source nature allows StrongNode to adapt it to power its supercomputers via StrongNode’s IaaS. Thus, supercomputers with immense computing potential can be created from devices that fit in a pocket.
StrongNode Unites Untapped Potential from Devices on the Edge
There’s a vast pool of potential computing power in most homes that goes unrealized every minute. For instance, reading this article strains a device’s capabilities to well under its maximum threshold for computational work, and while that extra power just lays there dormant, it could be used for other tasks working in the background.
This is the basis of StrongNode.io’s IaaS: uniting the untapped potential from nearby devices, devices on the edge, in order to deliver high-powered computing services where they are needed on demand.
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