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Editorial
Nature 440, 383 (23 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440383a; Published online 22 March 2006
Steering the future of computing
Abstract
Computational power is surging thanks to insatiable consumers. Natural scientists should seize opportunities to stimulate computer science, to help everybody cope with huge volumes of data.
Sometime in the 2010s, if all goes well, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will start to bring a vision of the heavens to Earth. Suspended between its vast mirrors will be a three-billion-pixel sensor array, which on a clear winter night will produce 30 terabytes of data.
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type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
root cause
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.