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Real Hadoop Performance Rolls From RDMA
The promise of adding ultra-high performance to Hadoop is like offering to rig jet engines onto minivans. …
Articles by Nicole Hemsoth Prickett
Compute
Distributed Artificial Intelligence Climbs Out Of The Box
If complex artificial intelligence applications could easily be run on the fly across hundreds of thousands of compute cores around the world–and at a cost that significantly undercuts the top public cloud providers–a new world of potential uses and new applications will certainly flourish. …
Compute
What’s Really Driving HPC Decisions in Oil and Gas?
Not long ago, we learned that a new Cray XC40 supercomputer would be installed in the coming months for Norwegian oil and gas processing company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS). …
AI
On The API for Harvesting Global Camera Networks
We tend to cover the various platforms that are being used at massive scale to tackle pressing enterprise and research problems, but once in a while, something out on the edge that shows how these platforms are being deployed catches our eye. …
Code
Hunting the Mythical Automatic Parallelizing Compiler
As we have heard time and again, one of the greatest challenges for future exascale class computing—the one that falls right under power consumption–is how codes are ever going to evolve to take advantage of that much compute. …
Compute
Energy Giant Total Triples Flops On Pangea Supercomputer
Tis the season for massive supercomputer deals in the oil and gas segment. …
AI
Emerging FPGA Analytics Market Delivers New Packages
As we touched on last week, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are not a silver bullet that will rip through the enterprise datacenter world anytime soon. …
HPC
Benchmarking a Burst Buffer in the Wild
Those in the high performance computing world have been hearing about the applicability of burst buffers for some time now, but most talk about them is centered on their role in future pre-exascale systems at large HPC centers and national labs. …
Compute
Optical Processors Bring Light Touch to Genomics
There have been numerous attempts to bring optical processors into the mainstream computing fold, but they remain far behind their silicon cousins for practical reasons including programmability and overall practicality, especially since host processors and full infrastructure are still required to support them. …
Compute
FPGA Market Floats Future on the Cloud
It’s possible to count the number of major FPGA vendors on one hand, and despite a desire to differentiate, they are flocking together around some key areas where FPGA market growth seems most promising. …