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Memahami Konsep Big Data dan Karakteristiknya

What is Big Data? Hmmmm... Imagine all the data that have been generated, from your birth until now, starting from your name, education data, health, and others, drawn into one box. Surely your house is full of boxes, right? And it is generated by everyone on earth. You cannot imagine how full of boxes this earth will be, right? In simple terms, big data is a very large data set that cannot be processed by conventional computer systems and software, and has certain characteristics, namely volume, variety, and velocity. In big data, the volume or size of the data generated is very large, even extremely large. If all the data for 2010 were transferred to DVD, it could create a long pile, along the distance between the earth to the moon, and back to the earth, and the data would continue to grow. In 2012, we were generating 2.3 trillion gigabytes of data every day. It is estimated that by 2020, 43 trillion gigabytes of data will be generated. Apart from volume, variety is also one of the characteristics of big data. The data generated consist of various types and variations, such as text, photos, videos, and others. What generates big data? Many things. One of them is the internet of things. The internet of things can be interpreted where objects around us can communicate with each other via networks such as the internet. Starting from smartphones, televisions, watches, and even refrigerators. All of these objects generate data. Whether it is data about the location of a traffic jam somewhere, your daily heart rate data, data about how many steps you take every day, banking data, health data, sensor data to gather information about the climate, your posts on social media, credit card transaction data, and most importantly, data for science. In Indonesia, the Research Center for Informatics of LIPI plays a role in a major science project in the field of experimental particle physics, namely Alice-Cern. The project generates huge amounts of data, so it requires high-performance computing to process it. The data that have been generated must then be analyzed very quickly to produce information. That is why velocity is another important character of big data. Just imagine, how company stocks, routes, weather forecasts, can be found in minutes, even seconds, if the data are not analyzed quickly.
Of course, ordinary computer equipment cannot handle this. It could take several years to do that. HPC is the answer. HPC or High Performance Computing is a computer system built to be able to complete immeasurable computational loads in an acceptable time. An HPC system consists of tens, hundreds, even thousands of CPU cores that are connected to each other to complete a computation in parallel. LIPI has two HPC systems which are managed by the Research Center for Informatics in Bandung and Cibinong. LIPI opens opportunities for people who want to use the HPC for scientific purposes for free. For further information, please open grid.lipi.go.id and let us work together for the advancement of science in Indonesia. So, it can be concluded that big data is a phenomenon created by advancements in technology. And like it or not, we have to deal with it.