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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

most of them are structured as data scientist manuals focusing on algorithms and methodologies and assume that human decisions play a central role in transforming analytical findings into business actions. This framework will later be used to describe analytical problems in a more uniform way. Thomas, 2006. Fano, 2002.

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