The convergence of HPC and BigData: What does it mean for HPC sysadmins?

Damien Francois gave this talk at FOSDEM’19. “The world of HPC and the world of BigData are slowly, but surely, converging. The HPC world realizes that there are more to data storage than just files and that ‘self-service’ ideas are tempting. In the meantime, the BigData world realizes that co-processors and fast networks can really speedup analytics. And indeed, all major public Cloud services now have an HPC offering. And many academic HPC centres start to offer Cloud infrastructures and BigData-related tools.”