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We present Flotta, a Federated Learning framework designed to train machine learning models on sensitive data distributed across a multi-party consortium conducting research in contexts requiring high levels of security, such as the…
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Radio astronomy observatories with high throughput back end instruments require real-time data processing. While computing hardware continues to advance rapidly, development of real-time processing pipelines remains difficult and…
We describe the development of a scientific cloud computing (SCC) platform that offers high performance computation capability. The platform consists of a scientific virtual machine prototype containing a UNIX operating system and several…
The Grist project (http://grist.caltech.edu/) is developing a grid-technology based system as a research environment for astronomy with massive and complex datasets. This knowledge extraction system will consist of a library of distributed…
The rapid advancement of big data technologies has underscored the need for robust and efficient data processing solutions. Traditional Spark-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions, such as Databricks and Amazon Web Services Elastic…
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Cloud Computing (CC) serves to be a key driver for fulfilling the store and compute requirements of a modern Smart Grid (SG). However, since the datacenters are deployed in concentrated and far remote areas, it fails to guarantee the…
Complex networks are relational data sets commonly represented as graphs. The analysis of their intricate structure is relevant to many areas of science and commerce, and data sets may reach sizes that require distributed storage and…
In last decade, data analytics have rapidly progressed from traditional disk-based processing to modern in-memory processing. However, little effort has been devoted at enhancing performance at micro-architecture level. This paper…
Objective: To (1) demonstrate the implementation of a data science platform built on open-source technology within a large, academic healthcare system and (2) describe two computational healthcare applications built on such a platform.…
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Distributed computation is always a tricky topic to deal with, especially in context of various requirements in various scenarios. A popular solution is to use Apache Spark with a setup of multiple systems forming a cluster. However, the…
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