Speaking of the Blue Gene/L price drop and buying spree, NCAR has opened its 1024-node BG/L — named “frost” — up for business on the Teragrid.
Frost weighs in at 5.7 TFLOPS with 1024 dual-core 700 MHz PowerPC-440 CPUs. More at NCAR’s web site.
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Presto addresses a real need for a portable SQL on Hadoop tool. It is architected from the ground up for high performance interactive query processing. Open source is a fount of continual innovation, especially with regard to big data. In addition, there are strong tools that come with specific Hadoop distributions. The fact is that organizations will deploy multiple tools. For organizations moving toward a Unified Data Architecture, the rationale for adopting Presto is even stronger.
