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ConocoPhillips Sparks Tooling For Seismic HPC, Cloud, AI/ML

March 4, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

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

December 11, 2019 Simon Crosby 0

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

April 9, 2019 Douglas Eadline 3

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

October 17, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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. …

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Successful Machine Learning With A Global Data Fabric

May 7, 2018 Jack Norris 1

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

November 7, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

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

April 5, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

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

May 3, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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

April 11, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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Tachyon Caching Is Bigger Than Spark In-Memory

February 25, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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