Supercomputers can perform amazing analysis, but can they predict the future? Data scientist and one of the foremost proponents in the emerging field of predictive supercomputing Kalev Leetaru predicts they will be able to.
For Leetaru’s 2011 study “Culturomics 2.0: Forecasting large–scale human behavior using global news media tone in time and space,” he applied tone and geographic analysis to a 30–year worldwide news archive using the Nautilus SGI UV supercomputer at the National Institute for Computational Sciences. Nautilus created a network comprised of 10 billion items connected by one hundred trillion relationships.
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