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Just How Deep is the HPC, Hadoop Chasm?
There has been a great deal of investment and research into making HPC speak Hadoop over the last couple of years. …
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Lack Of Legacy Lets Capital One Build Nimble Infrastructure
Not all upstarts are founded in the tech industry, and not all of them within the last decade, either. …
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Will Apache Hama Have Its Day in HPC?
Apache Hama is a distributed framework based on a bulk synchronous parallel computing approach that is designed to efficiently tackle select problems that Hadoop chokes on, including graph and matrix algorithms. …
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Memristors Mimic Brains For Massive Machine Learning
If you think that Hewlett-Packard is disappointed about the delays in getting the memristor to market, so is a tenacious inventor who has been working at the confluence of electronics and machine learning. …
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Microsoft Research Sees Narrowing Innovation Gap in Deep Learning
A lead deep learning expert at Microsoft Research thinks the low-hanging fruit for progress in deep neural networks has been picked and that for the next couple of years, refinement of neural networks and deep learning algorithms will be isolated and incremental. …
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Bringing HPC and Hadoop Under the Same Cluster Umbrella
The computational capability of modern supercomputers, matched with the data handling abilities of the Hadoop framework, when done efficiently, creates a best of both worlds opportunity. …
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MIT Introduces Supercomputers to Accumulo
When the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. released the Accumulo project into open source territory in 2008, there were not a lot of details about the size and capability of the hardware it was running, although it is safe to say that the NSA found ways to make it scale across some of their larger machines. …
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Spark Creator on Scaling Success, Opening Access
When, at some point in the distant future, we look back to the pioneering days of the golden age of data wrangling, a number of words that sound rather ridiculous without context, like Hadoop or Mesos, will filter into the conversation. …
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GPU Accelerators Radically Boost SQL Queries
In-memory databases are all the rage for very fast query processing, but you have to have the right balance of compute and memory for queries against in-memory databases to really scream. …
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Scale And Database Pioneer Talks Hadoop Evolution
Hadoop started out as a batch-oriented system for chewing through massive amounts of unstructured data on the cheap, enabling all sorts of things such as search engines and advertising systems. …