Last week I went on an excursion away from my Silicon Beach base of operation to downtown Los Angeles in order to take in the Cloudera Sessions tech event. I think it is a good strategy for a company like this to increase brand awareness in an ever-crowded Hadoop distribution marketplace.
Archives for April 2014
Slidecast: Power Systems — Open Innovation to Put Data to Work
April 28, 2014 by
“According to Big Blue, the new scale-out Power servers culminate a $2.4 billion investment and are built from the ground up to harness Big Data with the new IBM Power8 processor. During the launch event, IBM unveiled a rack full of 2U Power8 servers with up to 100 Terabytes of in-memory analytics capacity.”
Slidecast: IBM Fellows Tackle Grand Challenges of Big Data
April 28, 2014 by
“A common thread for many of this year new IBM Fellows is their commitment to developing solutions and practical applications in the field of Big Data and Analytics. IBM is a leader in the space – with 1500 Big Data and Analytics-related patents in 2013 alone, and $24 billion in investments since 2005 through both acquisitions and R&D – and these fellows maintain the drumbeat of momentum that has made IBM number one in Big Data market share for the second year running.”
OFA to Streamline Verbs Interface
April 28, 2014 by
“OpenFabrics Alliance members are working to streamline and make the verbs interface more efficient. Since this is an open source effort this will take some time, but the consensus is that there is too much overhead both in the depth of the call stack and in the size of associated data structures for verbs to scale well in the exascale era.”
Cxense Unveils Real-Time Data Management Platform
April 27, 2014 by
Cxense has announced the Cxense DMP, an expanded version of its Big Data solution that offers publishers improved aggregation, segmentation and use of customer data to better engage and monetize visitors across all digital channels, including mobile phones and tablets.
Lustre File System Talk from the OpenFabrics Workshop
April 27, 2014 by
In this video from the OpenFabrics International Developer Workshop 2014, Doug Oucharek from Intel presents: Lustre File System.
Kaggle: GE Awards Winners of Flight Quest 2
April 26, 2014 by
GE has just revealed the private leaderboard on Flight Quest 2 — and four outstanding winners from the Kaggle community. Flight Quest 2 began last August as the second part in GE’s Industrial Internet Flight Quest, in partnership with Alaska Airlines and Kaggle.
JICS to Collaborate with WARP Mechanics on Next-Gen Object Storage
April 26, 2014 by
This week the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at ORNL announced a partnership with WARP Mechanics to study next generation object storage technologies for use in HPC environments. In this video from LUG 2014, Josh Judd from Warp Mechanics presents: Practical Applications of Lustre/ZFS Hybrid Systems.”
Numerify Launches Cloud Analytics Application
April 25, 2014 by
Numerify, a leading provider of cloud-based business analytics, has emerged from stealth to announce the general availability of Numerify360™ for IT — an innovative solution that transforms the way IT uses analytics to drive transparency, accountability, and efficiency by providing visibility and intelligence across the full spectrum of IT service operations.
This Week in HPC: Altera Gives FPGAs a Floating Point Makeover and IBM Previews Power8 Portfolio
April 25, 2014 by
In this episode of This Week in HPC, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research look at Altera’s FPGA floating-point makeover. After the break, they discuss IBM’s new POWER8 servers.
