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Airbnb Shares The Keys To Its Infrastructure
There was something ironic about meeting Mike Curtis, the vice president of engineering at Airbnb, in a hotel in lower Manhattan. …
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Spark Makes Hadoop Mainstream, Cloudera Jumps In
It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific like MapReduce Engine. …
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How Can IBM Power8 Win Deals Away From Intel Xeon?
This is not the first time that Big Blue has found itself the underdog in the datacenter, and it probably will not be the last time, either. …
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The Black Box Problem Closes in on Neural Networks
Explaining the process of how any of us might have arrived to a particular conclusion or decision by verbally detailing the variables, weights, and conditions that our brains navigate through to arrive at an answer can be complex enough. …
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The Yahoo Behind Fresh Deep Learning Approaches at Flickr
There are few more interesting trends in infrastructure right now than the pairing between high performance computing hardware and the software tapestries of deep neural networks. …
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Making Spark and Hadoop Run SQL Better And Faster
Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. …
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Opening the Door for Wider Hadoop Storage Strategies
The Hadoop framework was created to deliver a balance between performance and data management efficiencies and while this is a good part of the reason it has taken off in recent years, there are still some areas of The Next Platform that are out of balance at the storage layer. …
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Intel Leverages HPC Core for Analytics Tooling Push
Each year, Intel bundles core software developments into its Parallel Studio Suite and releases an updated version, which includes extensions to its suite of libraries, compilers, and analytical tools. …
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The Theoretical Underbelly of Optimizing Machine Learning Systems
This week we will be delving into systems and architectures designed for machine learning, but since it’s Monday and there is quite a bit to come, it seemed worthwhile to take a step back and consider how architects and software developers are thinking about the current landscape. …
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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. …