• Inside an Evolving Genomics Cluster

    February 20, 2015

    From processors, memory, network, and beyond, making architectural choices to support large-scale genomics research is often fed as much by trial and error as it is empirical knowledge about what will work for a demanding application set.

    Statistical genomics requires snappy rehashing of a central, consistent dataset (which can, luckily, be managed in cache) against an ever-evolving set of variables to strike correlations. “The problem isn’t with processing genomic data—it’s fairly easy to understand and accelerate from a computational perspective. It’s rather the discovery, the statistical genetics, which is the top-down comparison of many thousands of genomes all at once,” …

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  • Flink Sparks Next Wave of Distributed Data Processing

    February 22, 2015

    If you haven’t heard of Flink until now, get ready for the deluge. As one of a stream of Apache incubator-to-top-level projects turned commercial effort, the data processing engine’s promise is to deliver near-real time handling of data analytics in a much faster, more condensed, and memory-aware way than Hadoop or its in-memory predecessor, Spark, could do.

    What really captured our attention, however, was the claim by Data Artisans, the company behind Flink, that the new tool can deliver 100X the speed of Hadoop with all the necessary programming APIs firmed up, including those for Java, Scala, and the coming …

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  • Tesla Compute Drives Nvidia Upwards

    February 25, 2015

    The graphics processor business was humming along as Nvidia ended its fiscal 2015 year in late January. This part of the company broke through $1 billion in sales in a quarter for the first time, thanks in part to the growing adoption of Tesla GPU coprocessors for a variety of computing tasks.

    In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, which ended on January 25, GPU revenue rose by 13 percent year-on-year to $1.073 billion. In her commentary, CFO Colette Kress said that the Tesla GPU business “increased strongly,” driven in particular by big deals Nvidia and its partners had won …

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  • Manufacturers Making Workstation To Cluster Leap

    February 26, 2015

    As one of the fastest growing markets in HPC, the manufacturing sector is looking to supercomputing to drive its next generation of product modeling and simulation. Finite element analysis packages are essential, but for mid-sized manufacturing companies, running these on workstations with four or eight cores is the norm due to expensive per-core licensing for the software.

    This description of an HPC workstation-only approach applies to Poland’s largest steel processing company, Stalprodukt S.A., which finally took a very large step toward running much more sophisticated and faster simulations to meet customer demands for durable and inexpensive steel products in Poland …

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  • Pivotal Opens Up More Of Its Platform

    February 25, 2015

    Just a few years ago, using a new kind of tool such as the Hadoop data muncher was sufficient to gain competitive advantage in many industries. But now, incumbents in just about every sector of the global economy are facing challenges from upstarts, what Pivotal – the database, analytics, and platform cloud spinout from EMC and VMware – calls “the Uber-ization of industries.”

    “I end up in meetings with these stalwarts of industry, whether it is the world’s largest thermostat manufacturer or titans of the transportation, and they are all pretty scared because their industries are being disrupted,” Michael Cucchi, …

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