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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. …
Spark
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. …
AI
Google Pits Dataflow Against Spark
It is almost without question that search engine giant Google has the most sophisticated and scalable data analytics platform on the planet. …
Compute
Spark On Superdome X Previews In-Memory On The Machine
As readers of The Next Platform are well aware, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is staking a lot of the future of its systems business on The Machine, which embodies the evolving concepts for disaggregated and composable systems that are heavy on persistent storage that sometimes functions like shared memory, on various kinds of compute, and on the interconnects between the two. …
Control
Tachyon Caching Is Bigger Than Spark In-Memory
When the founding committer of the Spark in-memory computing framework becomes the CEO of a company that has dropped out of stealth mode and will very likely soon be offering support for a new storage caching layer for the modern, distributed computing era that will span beyond Spark, you have to stop and take notice. …
AI
Hadoop, Spark, Deep Learning Mesh on Single GPU Cluster
When it comes to leveraging existing Hadoop infrastructure to extend what is possible with large volumes of data and various applications, Yahoo is in a unique position–it has the data and just as important, it has the long history with Hadoop, MapReduce and other key tools in the open source big data stack close at hand and manned with seasoned experts. …
AI
Kafka Streaming Pulled Into Converged MapR Platform
Time and again, commercial Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has demonstrated the value of the MapR-FS file system that underpins its Hadoop stack and differentiates it, more than any other feature, from the other Hadoop platforms with which it competes. …
AI
IBM Fashions Open Source Platform for Machine Learning
It’s funny how Hadoop continues to crop up as the prime example of an open source platform that finds an early niche as an experiment in enterprise IT shops then suddenly explodes into its own vibrant ecosystem. …
Code
Exascale HPC Needs An Application Innovation Spark
Every evolution in computing hardware brings with it big challenges for software developers. …