SDSC Awarded NSF Grant for Triton Stratus

The National Science Foundation has awarded SDSC a two-year grant worth almost $400,000 to deploy a new system called Triton Stratus. “Triton Stratus will provide researchers with improved facilities for utilizing emerging computing paradigms and tools, namely interactive and portal-based computing, and scaling them to commercial cloud computing resources. Researchers, especially data scientists, are increasingly using toolssuch as Jupyter notebooks and RStudio to implement computational and data analysis functions and workflows.”

Databricks Partners with RStudio To Increase Productivity of Data Science Teams

Databricks, a leader in unified analytics and founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, announced a partnership with RStudio, providers of a free and open-source integrated development environment for R, to increase the productivity of data science teams. The partnership will allow the two companies to seamlessly integrate Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform with the RStudio Server, simplifying R programming on big data.