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Cloud Computing for Data Analysis
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Cloud Computing for Data Analysis

by Noah Gift, Alfredo Deza
December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
4h 17m
English
Pragmatic AI Labs
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100 Chapter 4: Challenges and Opportunities in Distributed Computing
cap-theorem
Learn what the CAP eorem is in the following screencast.
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Amdahl’s Law
Likewise, there are diminishing returns with parallelization. Just because more cores exist, it doesn’t
mean they will be useful in all problems. Further, diminished efficiency occurs because most
programs are not 100% parallel.
Learn what Amdahl’s Law is in the following screencast.
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For ea portion of the program that is not entirely parallel, the diminishing returns increase.
Finally, some
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