In the decade that Hadoop has been a force, first as an independent research endeavor, then as a project at Yahoo, before moving swiftly into Facebook, LinkedIn, and other webscale datacenters, the entire data landscape changed. …
From its start in 2000, The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) has been the largest genomic research center in Spain and among the largest in Europe. …
Offloading parts of the network stack from processors to specialized circuits on network adapter cards is not a new idea. …
When it comes to trading stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments, Bloomberg is usually in the middle with its eponymous terminals, which have more than 325,000 subscribers worldwide. …
The high end of the computing industry has always captivated us, and we still find the forces at work in the upper echelons of the datacenters of the world, and the hardware and software that is created to run the largest and most complex workloads found there, fascinating. …
Technologies are not the only things that pollinate across the HPC, hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise sectors of the IT economy. …
Software wants to be free, or more precisely, the organizations that deploy software for specific functions in their platform stack want to be able to do so on the systems that they choose rather than the ones that a vendor that is fond of its hardware margins chooses. …
Oracle co-founder and now chief technology officer Larry Ellison may have come late to the term cloud computing, but the database giant that expanded into middleware and applications over his tenure was not – definitely not – late to understanding the transformational aspects of compute utilities hosting application software. …
A public cloud is, at its most basic level, a giant shared computing facility that spans a datacenter or multiple datacenters, and as such, it needs a kind of operating system of its own to make the collection of servers, storage, and switches behave as a single machine to both its users and to the company that is operating the cloud. …
The Power8-based “Barreleye” server being engineered by cloud and hosting provider and OpenStack champion Rackspace Hosting has moved off the drawing boards and into silicon, printed circuit board, and bent metal. …
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