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- adjective Involving large amounts of
data , on thescale of theWorld Wide Web .
Etymologies
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In fact, with just about every webscale application, developers innovated and invented infrastructure required for their applications.
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Is it predominantly webscale computing infrastructure – or data stores – or software frameworks – or a combination? or something else?
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But expecting quality webscale work on the scale of say, Dresden Codak or Kukkiburri or Gunnerkreig (sp?)
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Fortunately today the convergence of very low cost netbook PCs and the creation of webscale infrastructure by companies like Microsoft and Amazon makes this all imminently possible.
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There has been stronger consortial activity and libraries have been looking at how to exploit webscale services more (think of knowledge-base data in Google Scholar, for example, or links to special collections materials added to Wikipedia).
Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog dempsey 2010
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In her report on Open science at webscale, I was interested to see Liz Lyon give the following list of tools used to share their work by researchers.
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We can call it cloud computing, webscale applications or merely bigger data centers, but the key element here is that the hardware has gone social in ways that require many-to-many ways of communication and delivering instructions to the processors - inside the servers, between the servers, and soon, between data centers.
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In her report on Open science at webscale, I was interested to see Liz Lyon give the following list of tools used to share their work by researchers.
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Building webscale or cloud applications is hampered by figuring out ways to spread tasks out over thousands of computers without slowing things down, or requiring too many people to keep things running.
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There has been stronger consortial activity and libraries have been looking at how to exploit webscale services more (think of knowledge-base data in Google Scholar, for example, or links to special collections materials added to Wikipedia).
Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog dempsey 2010
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