Analysis of big data that can reveal early signs of an Ebola outbreak or the first traces of a cyberattack require a different kind of processor than has been developed for large-scale scientific studies. Since the data might come from disparate sources — say, medical records and GPS locations in the case of Ebola — they are organized in such a way that conventional computer processors handle them inefficiently.
Now, the U.S. military research organization DARPA has announced a new effort to build a processor for this kind of data — and the software to run on it. A group of computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive $7 million over five years to create a software development kit for big data analysis.
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