“For environments where large memory systems are critical – bio informatics, legacy databases i.e. Big Data, we have focused on a lot of performance enhancements. We strive to make large memory systems as fast as possible. It is interesting to note that in some cases, our VMs are faster than physical machines. We do this by prefetching and caching data based on our understanding of memory placement and access patterns.”
Archives for February 2014
DataStax Adds In-Memory Option to Cassandra Database for 100x Speed-Up
February 26, 2014 by
DataStax today announced DataStax Enterprise 4.0, the latest version of its always-on database platform based on Apache Cassandra. DataStax Enterprise 4.0 introduces a powerful new in-memory option and enterprise search enhancements for significantly faster performance in use cases where companies must process data at the speed of business.
Big Data Humor: A View from the C-Suite
February 26, 2014 by
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ISC’14 in Leipzig Responds to Feedback, Upgrades Air-Conditioning and WIFI
February 26, 2014 by
The good folks from ISC heard you and they have upgraded the air conditioning and networking at the convention center for ISC’14.
Leadership Computing for Combustion Apps on INCITE and PRACE Systems
February 26, 2014 by
“The INCITE and PRACE programs give access to increasing resources allowing these technologies to be applied to industrial scale systems. From past and ongoing research examples performed at CERFACS, this presentation highlights the scientific breakthroughs allowed by HPC on exascale machines for reacting flows for gas turbines and explosions in buildings.”
Ghent University Speeds Genome Analysis with TimeLogic
February 26, 2014 by
Using FPGA-based accelerators, TimeLogic’s DeCypher systems greatly increase the speed of sequence comparison.
IBTA Releases Updated Integrators’ List
February 26, 2014 by
This week the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the availability of its October 2013 Combined Cable and Device Integrators’ List.
For Financial Services, it’s HPC to the Rescue
February 25, 2014 by
“Today, most financial services organizations try to solve all of their big data challenges using either grid or cluster technologies. One popular approach involves the use of Hadoop running on commodity x86-based clusters. At Cray we’re taking a different approach, leveraging our supercomputing technologies to improve I/O performance, disk utilization and efficiency.”
Gartner Reveals Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics
February 25, 2014 by
The analytics software category is 30 years old and about $15 billion in size. So why is it that information technology research and advisory firm Gartner has not published a standalone Magic Quadrant on the sector until this year? The answer: Gartner has meshed business intelligence with analytics for the past decade, and viewed them […]
Interview: Data Analytics and the Ubiquitous Internet of Things
February 25, 2014 by
We sat down with Cristian Borcea, PhD from the New Jersey Institute of Technology to discuss the IoT and Big Data applications. “New machine learning techniques could help us extract knowledge from these data – this happens especially for knowledge that we don’t expect and we don’t even know exists – we cannot search for something that we don’t know exists.”
