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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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