At the dawn of the cloud computing revolution, the winners were determined in their ability to rule with an “iron” fist (the hardware) but over the next ten years, we will see that having an iron-fist basis for rule is far easier than ruling with nuanced, multi-layered intelligence–and it takes a special kind of leader to do that. …
Well before the Intel acquisition of Altera and the news about Microsoft’s use of the Catapult servers, which feature FPGAs to power their Bing search engine and other key applications, it has been clear that the FPGA future is just starting to unfold. …
As the shift in high performance computing has taken an efficient data-intensive supercomputing turn in recent years, fundamental rethinks in architecture are coming to the fore. …
When it comes to leveraging existing Hadoop infrastructure to extend what is possible with large volumes of data and various applications, Yahoo is in a unique position–it has the data and just as important, it has the long history with Hadoop, MapReduce and other key tools in the open source big data stack close at hand and manned with seasoned experts. …
The ever-growing open source data stack ushered in yet another piece this morning with Apache Arrow, a new top-level project providing a columnar in-memory layer that focuses on higher performance data processing. …
There are few more widely recognized names in modern database research than Dr. …
Consider the metaphor of pushing an elephant into a small box. …
Whether in the brain or in code, neural networks are shaping up to be one of the most critical areas of research in both neuroscience and computer science. …
Keeping track of the many graph analytics platforms and databases that exist and weighing their relative advantages could be a full time job. …
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