Large data application to develop new realm of military revolution

Across the 2012, mankind has an important discovery: Over the past 3 years, the total amount of information data over the past 400 years, the core driving force of human social Development, has been transformed from "Power Drive" to "Data driven"; economic activity has shifted from the use of materials to the use of large data. Many experts and scholars shout, mankind has entered a big data era of explosive data growth, and even predicted that 2013 will be the world's "big data year." Facing the big data development, how should we understand and judge, make the big data technology apply in the military field, push forward the new military reform to develop further? We recently conducted an exclusive interview with director of the Institute of Defense Information Meng Baohong.

Large data = mass data + Complex type data

Q: We know that the word "data" is familiar, but "big data" is a concept that has been circulated in recent years. So, can you talk about how we know and understand big data?

A: What is large data? This is the first question we need to answer for big data and big data development. In general, large data refers to those data that exceed the processing capacity of traditional database systems, and the amount of data is usually over 10TB (1tb=1024gb, 1 trillion bytes). In particular, large data has 4 basic characteristics: First, the volume of data is huge. Baidu data show that its new home page navigation needs to provide more than 1.5PB of data (1PB=1024TB), these data if printed out will be more than 500 billion pieces of A4 paper. Information confirms that, so far, all the printed materials produced by human beings are only 200PB. Second, the data types are diverse. Now the data type is not only the text form, more is the picture, the video, the audio, the geographical location information and so on many kinds of data, the personalization data occupies the absolute majority. Third, the processing speed is fast. Data processing follows the "1-Second Law", which quickly obtains high-value information from various types of data. Four is the low value density. Take video as an example, an hour of video, in the uninterrupted monitoring process, may be useful data only two seconds.

Q: If large data is a technology and what technologies are specifically included?

A: A variety of studies have shown that large data is another disruptive technological change in parallel with the intelligent manufacturing and wireless network revolution. The specific contents include: Massive data analysis technology, large-data processing technology, distributed computing technology, data visualization technique. Distributed computing, also known as cloud computing technology, can meet the needs of a large number of data processing, such as 10 million of people simultaneously searching for a certain data, it will be distributed to the world's servers and processed through them, the results and 10,000 people search this data is no different.

Large data generation is a big digital development

Q: Can you give a brief introduction to the development trend of the big data in the world today?

A: The rapid development of large data is far beyond people's imagination. Of particular concern is that in March 2012, the Obama administration issued a "large Data research and development program" and announced the upfront investment of more than 200 million dollars for the development of large data key technologies to preempt the commanding heights of the development and utilization of data resources. May 2012, the United Nations "Global Pulse" program released the "Big Data development: Opportunities and challenges" report, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and other developed countries to respond positively. China has also established a large data committee of Chinese Communications Society in October 2012. All kinds of indications show that the world, especially developed countries, have put the development of large data into the national strategic level to promote, so that large data is becoming a new focus of the world's new strategic resource contention.

Q: Large data development so fast, please talk about the development of large data and the context of what is, what should be treated?

A: Over the past more than 20 years, the accelerated growth of data in various fields, especially in the field of information, is the basis for the concept of large data. Experts estimate that the 2000 global new data output of 1000PB to 2000PB, by 2010 only the global enterprise a year new storage data volume is more than 7000PB. For the development of large data, McKinsey, a world-renowned consultancy, argues that data has penetrated into every industry and business functional area, becoming an important production factor, and that the use of massive data will herald a new wave of productivity growth in government public services, people's health services, social stability, The extensive application in the field of dynamic security supervision will produce huge social value and industrial space. The agency predicts that large data applications will bring the net profit growth of the US retail industry to 60%, reducing the manufacturing cost of product development and assembly by 50%. The effects and changes are revolutionary, indicating that large numbers are of great value.

Large data application to develop new realm of military revolution

Q: Now look, big data development is irreversible. So, what are the prospects for the application of large data in the military field?

A: Large data are widely used in the fields of science, technology, economy, culture and so on in today's world. such as the current U.S. military information system, running more than 772 data centers, servers more than 70,000 units, there are about 7 million computer terminals. "The gap between growing data-gathering capacity and limited data-processing capacity is widening," Robert Colle, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, said in 2011. "Therefore, the U.S. military is stepping up the development of large data programs, identified the" from data to decision-making, network technology, electronic warfare and electronic protection, engineering elastic system, weapons of mass destruction defense, autonomous systems and human-computer interaction, such as 7 key research areas. The basic strategy of the U.S. military to deal with large data is to improve the ability of "from data to decision making", and realize the transformation from data superiority to decision advantage.

Q: The application of large data in military field will definitely promote the further development of new military revolution. So, what is the trend of this change?

A: The biggest core of future influence and decision military action is the data, data accumulation, data analysis and processing ability, data leading decision will be the key to gain battlefield advantage. Large data technology applications in the field of reconnaissance and early warning, it can greatly improve the ability of acquiring, tracking, locating, processing, analyzing and defending of the information superiority of one side, and further enhancing the ability of exploiting other countries ' high value military intelligence; in the field of command and control, it can greatly improve the intelligent processing of command and control data, Supporting decision-making ability, effectively enhancing the command and control level based on data; in the field of information and communication, information confrontation and fire strike, the application of large data is equally extensive and profound. Facing the advent of the big data age, we must recognize the characteristics, grasp the trend, actively respond, attach great importance to its potential strategic value, always pay attention to its cutting-edge technology, accelerate its practical application, to ensure that in the new wave of information to win the initiative, take advantage of the opportunity.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)