If you look back at it now, especially with the advent of massively parallel computing on GPUs, maybe the techies at Tera Computing and then Cray had the right idea with their “ThreadStorm” massively threaded processors and high bandwidth interconnects. …
The cloud has been a boon for enterprises trying to manage the massive amounts of data they collect every year. …
Database acceleration using specialized co-processors is nothing new. Just to give a few examples, data warehouses running on the Netezza platform, owned by IBM for more than a decade now, uses a custom and parallelized PostgreSQL database matched to FPGA acceleration for database and storage routines. …
Since late February and early March, when the coronavirus outbreak began to spill out of China in earnest and spread its sickness and death across Europe, throughout the United States, and into other parts of the globe, IT companies have stepped up to lend their technologies to fight the pandemic. …
Even though graph analytics has not disappeared, especially in the select areas where this is the only efficient way to handle large-scale pattern matching and analysis, the attention has been largely silenced by the new wave machine learning and deep learning applications. …
For a mature company that kickstarted supercomputing as we know it, Cray has done a rather impressive job of reinventing itself over the years. …
Efficiently and quickly chewing through one trillion edges of a complex graph is no longer in itself a standalone achievement, but doing so on a single node, albeit with some acceleration and ultra-fast storage, is definitely worth noting. …
An increasing amount of the world’s data is encapsulated in images and video and by its very nature it is difficult and extremely compute intensive to do any kind of index and search against this data compared to the relative ease with which we can do so with the textual information that heretofore has dominated both our corporate and consumer lives. …
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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