httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7P-ynBRXiA In this video from SC12, Doug Johnson from Aeon Computing describes the company’s innovative Data Oasis technology powered by the Lustre file system. What advantages does Lustre offer as a foundation for a storage system? Bandwidth. Its performance scales out linearly as the file system scales in build out. The more object servers you […]
Scalable Informatics Keeps Keen Eye on Real-World Storage Performance at SC12
November 30, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvzTDxwpB_s In this video from SC12, Joe Landman from Scalable Informatics describes the company’s latest storage technologies for HPC. JackRabbit is a tightly coupled high performance computing and storage platform that integrates processing and network connectivity at prices starting at less than $1 per GB. siFlash is intended as a metadata server for parallel file […]
Slidecast: NetApp – Big Data and HPC
November 27, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXisP2p_mWE In this slidecast, Richard Treadway and Rich Seger from NetApp discuss the company’s storage solutions for Big Data and HPC. The company’s HPC solutions for Lustre support massive performance and storage density without sacrificing efficiency. Download the MP3 * Download the slides (PDF) * Subscribe on iTunes * If Dropbox is blocked, download audio from […]
Video: Immortality, Big Data, and Tattoos
November 24, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcPvvBgd1tE In this TEDx video, Juan Enriquez from Harvard Business School presents: Immortality, Big Data, and Tattoos. Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame is no more. Google, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and other electronic tattoos may be a path to immortality, whether you want it or not.
Video: Why Data Scientists are in Demand
November 23, 2012 by
In this video, IBM big data evangelist James Kobielus explains what a data scientist does, the skill set that it requires, how they collaborate with subject matter experts to deliver important insights, and why the role is so important to the future of IT and big data. Read the Full Story.
Video: OpenSFS and EOFS Foster the Lustre Community at SC12
November 22, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3EYX2ylJ54 In this video from SC12, Norm Morse from OpenSFS and Hugo Falter from the European EOFS get together over a couple of beers to discuss the latest developments in the Lustre community on the road to Exascale. The group’s initial focus is the Lustre parallel file system, which supports many of the requirements of […]
Video: SGI Demo Shows Worldwide Twitter Heat Maps
November 21, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3AqdIDYG0c Over at Daily Mail, Damian Ghigliotty writes that SGI’s clever Big Data demo at SC12 used a supercomputer to visualize the worldwide Twitter trends as they happened. As a joint project with the University of Illinois, the demo shows a real-time Twitter heat map to track up-to-the-minute responses to major events. There are a […]
Big Thinkers on Big Data: Auren Hoffman from LiveRamp
November 20, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcnzyUV7H1U In this video, Auren Hoffman from LiveRamp describes how Startups are in a better position to advantage of open source and capitalize on the potential of the Big Data market. Big data isn’t just for big companies anymore, it’s for everyone says Auren Hoffman, Live Ramp CEO and RapLeaf Chairman. Use the tools that […]
Panasas Chief Scientist on Where HPC Meets Big Data and Hadoop
November 19, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RS9HMGhvo In this video, Panasas Chief Scientist Garth Gibson describes how the company brings Hadoop support to bear in the world of Big Data and HPC. Hadoop is a great platform for taking a gigantic amount of information and reducing it down to the central core that you then want to do the second level […]
Video: NASA Wrangles Big Data from Space
November 14, 2012 by
In this video from ZDNet, NASA’s Nicholas Skytland discusses the agency’s big data challenges with over 10 Terabytes of data coming in every day from satellites. With missions planned that will transmit 24 Terabytes per day, NASA is leveraging Cloud Computing to handle much larger data sets in the future.
