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What is Passive DNS and how do you leverage it in research?

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In DNS, this is known as an "A" record and is one of many different record types including, but not limited to AAAA (IPv6), MX (mail), NS (nameserver), and TXT (text). At the time of writing this page, if we query passivetotal.org, we will be returned back the IP address of 45.55.77.126.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

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If you sign up with the coupon code 488 they will donate part of your bill to KIKA which is an organization that supports youth cancer research. CTO - Amazon.com. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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Or, BioPharma researchers and scientists can stream genomic sequencer data directly into Amazon S3, which frees up local resources and allows scientists to store, aggregate, and share human genomes as single objects in Amazon S3. CTO - Amazon.com. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. Contact Info.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

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Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. CTO - Amazon.com. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. Contact Info.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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Amazon Elastic MapReduce takes away much of this muck by providing a hosted Hadoop framework that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and efficiently spin up resizable clusters for distributed processing of large data sets. CTO - Amazon.com. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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And while many of our systems are based on the latest in computer science research, this often hasnt been sufficient: our architects and engineers have had to advance research in directions that no academic had yet taken. Founder and Chief Executive Officer. CTO - Amazon.com. Amazon.com, Inc. Contact Info.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Traditionally we have thought about HPC as the domain of extreme specialism; the kind of research that only happens at places such as the US National Research Labs. Many organizations are using mid-range HPC systems for their enterprise and research needs. CTO - Amazon.com. Commoditizing the management of HPC resources.

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