AI
Databricks Is Going To Be The Next Platform For Many Enterprises
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers control the design and manufacturing of own AI infrastructure. …
Spark
Cloud
Oracle Takes The Whole Nvidia AI Stack For Its Cloud
The top hyperscalers and clouds are rich enough to build out infrastructure on a global scale and create just about any kind of platform they feel like. …
Store
Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation
A decade and a half ago, when Dennard scaling ran out of gas and many of us were starting to first think about what the end of Moore’s Law might look like should that day ever come, a bunch of us were kicking around what it might mean. …
Code
ConocoPhillips Sparks Tooling For Seismic HPC, Cloud, AI/ML
Seismic processing and analysis at scale take scalable HPC resources but also need an analytics backend that can scale with massive datasets. …
Edge
Everybody Has Big Data – How To Cope With It
Enterprises are awash in data, and though many are tempted to save it all for later analysis – after all it worked for Google for many years – the store then analyze approach is poorly suited to environments with data sources that never stop. …
Edge
Big Data In Little Spaces: Hadoop And Spark At The Edge
The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. …
AI
Hadoop And Spark Get A Vector Performance Boost
Ever since the “Aurora” vector processor designed by NEC was launched last year, we have been wondering if it might be used as a tool to accelerate workloads other than the traditional HPC simulation and modeling jobs that are based on crunching numbers in single and double precision floating point. …
Compute
Successful Machine Learning With A Global Data Fabric
One of the most common misconceptions about machine learning is that success is solely due to its dynamic algorithms. …
AI
Easing The Pain Of Prepping Data For AI
Organizations are turning to artificial intelligence and deep learning in hopes of being able to more quickly make the right business decisions, to remake their business models and become more efficient, and to improve the experience of their customers. …
AI
Flare Gives Spark SQL a Performance Boost
Spark has grown rapidly over the past several years to become a significant tool in the big data world. …