Today Cray’s YarcData division announced a major upgrade to its uRiKA Big Data appliance for graph analytics. With the uRiKA Fall 2012 Release, the company is adding substantial new standards-based capabilities to boost functionality and performance on complex graph analytics inquiries. Big Data graph-analytics are increasingly used to reveal unknown, unexpected or hidden relationships in […]
Video: Can Computers Cure Disease?
October 19, 2012 by
In this video from the Discovery Channel, Intel’s John Hengeveld describes how computers are replacing experimentation as a way to proceed down the scientific process of trial and error. Hengeveld wrote here recently about his experiences with a rare form of cancer and how researchers at Berkeley are using Big Data to save lives with […]
SDSC Takes Lead in Commercializing Analytics
October 17, 2012 by
Over at Xconomy, Bruce V. Bigelow writes that a broad initiative in predictive analytics that began at the San Diego Supercomputer Center stepped up recently with a two-day “boot camp” in data mining for local companies. The event is intended to help San Diego companies that specialize in healthcare, drug development, genomics, telecommunications, and other […]
Bringing Hadoop to HPC – Panasas Partners with Hortonworks
October 16, 2012 by
Today Panasas announced a joint agreement with Hortonworks to accelerate adoption of Hadoop in the High Performance Technical Computing markets. As a leading commercial vendor promoting the innovation, development, and support of Apache Hadoop, Hortonworks has a mission to make the technology more robust and easier to install, manage, and use. The rapid adoption of […]
Interview: Altair and the World of Big Data
October 9, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEyTaOuU-I In this video, Ravi Kunju, Managing Director of Strategy & Marketing at Altair discusses how the company’s engineering technologies play in the world of Big Data and Analytics. Recorded at the PBS Works User Group meeting in San Jose on Oct. 2, 2012.
Rise to NASA’s Big Data Challenge
October 4, 2012 by
Over at GigaOM, Derrick Harris writes that NASA has launched a series of TopCoder challenges designed to find innovative solutions to the government’s big data problems. In the Big Data Challenge, contestants will try to derive value from disparate, incompatible cross-agency data sets. Although the possibility of influencing big data strategies within some of the […]
Report Lays Out the Big Data Road Map for Government
October 3, 2012 by
Over at the New York Times, Steve Lohr writes that a road map for rolling out Big Data projects in government was released today. The 39-page paper, “Demystifying Big Data: A Practical Guide to Transforming the Business of Government” was produced by the TechAmerica Foundation in consultation with technology experts in the White House, Internal […]
A ‘Maverick Fabric’ for Big Data Analytics
September 28, 2012 by
Over at Network World, Gnodal CEO Bob Fernande writes, just as in HPC clusters, plain old Ethernet doesn’t cut it for Big Data Analyitics. He then proposes a different approach with a new “maverick fabric.” Such a fabric should have a way to eliminate network congestion within a multi-switch Ethernet framework to free up available […]
Podcast: When Big Data Goes Bad – This Week on Radio Free HPC
September 23, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z4OD92Pz34 In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Big Data and analytics. More specifically, the guys talk about a couple of examples of when over-reliance on analytics leads to bad outcomes. The first deals with some high school kids who were allegedly found to be cheating by a plagiarism software program and […]
Panasas Moves to Hybrid Storage with ActiveStor 14
September 18, 2012 by
This week Panasas introduced ActiveStor 14, an SSD-Accelerated Scale-out NAS appliance optimized for extreme bandwidth and small file performance for Big Data workloads. According to the company, the new platform will satisfy the bandwidth requirements of the most demanding high-performance storage applications while opening new opportunities for Panasas parallel storage technology in industries with I/O […]
