{"id":18337,"date":"2020-03-27T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=18337"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:03","slug":"big-data-small-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/27\/big-data-small-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Big data, small footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of servers in clouds\" class=\"wp-image-6644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s.jpg 450w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption>(Copyright: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.123rf.com\/profile_shaihalud\">shaihalud \/ 123RF Stock Photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a time when we\u2019re relying on the internet to an unprecedented degree in our daily lives, a team of U-M researchers led by\u00a0<strong>Mosharaf Chowdhury\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Harsha Madhyastha<\/strong>\u00a0has found a way for tech companies, banks and health systems to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.engin.umich.edu\/2020\/03\/big-data-small-footprint\/\">squeeze more capacity out of our existing infrastructure<\/a>.\u00a0A change to the design of big-data software tool Apache Spark could enable the world\u2019s biggest users of computing power to crunch through massive tasks up to 16 times faster while lightening their burden on the internet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spark is an open-source electronic framework that serves as a task manager, coordinating vast networks of individual computers to work together as a single machine on big computing tasks. When Spark was built a decade ago, most of this work took place at large data centers. But today, it\u2019s increasingly being used to connect machines that are spread across the globe and connected by the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when we\u2019re relying on the internet to an unprecedented degree in our daily lives, a team of U-M researchers led by\u00a0Mosharaf Chowdhury\u00a0and\u00a0Harsha Madhyastha\u00a0has found a way for tech companies, banks and health systems to squeeze more capacity out of our existing infrastructure.\u00a0A change to the design of big-data software tool Apache Spark could enable the\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/27\/big-data-small-footprint\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,98,256,127],"class_list":["post-18337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-data","tag-infrastructure","tag-network","tag-software"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s.jpg",450,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s.jpg",450,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s.jpg",450,300,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s.jpg",450,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s.jpg",450,300,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s-450x300.jpg",450,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s.jpg",450,300,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/44953365_s.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"At a time when we\u2019re relying on the internet to an unprecedented degree in our daily lives, a team of U-M researchers led by\u00a0Mosharaf Chowdhury\u00a0and\u00a0Harsha Madhyastha\u00a0has found a way for tech companies, banks and health systems to squeeze more capacity out of our existing infrastructure.\u00a0A change to the design of big-data software tool Apache Spark&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18341,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18337\/revisions\/18341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}