Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Semantic Scholar New Site

I recently came across a new website called Semantic Scholar, and I've been exploring its collection of research papers and data. One thing that caught my eye was some interesting graphics illustrating the MASC, or Multiple Instruction Stream Associative Computer model. It seems like they have access to a lot of original research documents, because I even found a text comparing PRAM and MASC ( one on PRAM vs MASC ). I'm finding this site quite interesting and potentially useful for my own research.

Quick: Apache Spark a 'Fast' Post

Over at the other blog site made a 'quick' post about Apache Spark thinking that it is good that parallel computing is taking off as we have more and more data and cluster computing is commonplace now with AWS and Google-Cloud.