For last several decades, large-scale computing, whether for massive supercomputers or distributed enterprise systems, has been engaged in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. …
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. …
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. …
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