In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013, Jeff Denworth from DDN presents: DataDirect Networks Update. DDN has developed a Hadoop solution that is all about time to value: It simplifies rollout so that enterprises can get up and running more quickly, provides typical DDN performance to accelerate data processing, and reduces the amount […]
Video: Aeon Computing Big Data Storage with Lustre and ZFS
May 4, 2013 by
In this video from LUG 2013, Jeff Johnson from Aeon Computing presents an overview of the company’s innovative Lustre storage solutions. Our focus is on the design and deployment of highly-integrated HPC, clustered computing, and storage solutions for all areas of computer-aided research and production. With over 55 years of staff experience in high-performance computing, […]
Indiana University Helps NASA Manage Big Data
May 3, 2013 by
Indiana University has contributed Big Data expertise and infrastructure to NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a decade-long polar ice monitoring project. For the past four years, IU Research Technologies, a cyberinfrastructure and service center affiliated with the Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI), has provided IT support for the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), a National […]
SAS Adds to its Big Data Analytics Product Lineup
May 2, 2013 by
SAS this week announced six new high-performance analytics products to further strengthen the company’s leadership role as a provider of advanced analytics for Big Data. According to a recent IDC report, SAS analytics account for 35.2 percent worldwide market share, exhibiting steady growth over the past three years. The company’s next four closest competitors combined […]
Algorithm Predicts Whether Startups Will Succeed
April 30, 2013 by
Over at Oregon Business, Linda Baker writes that Thomas Thurston from Growth Science has created a model that accurately predicts whether or not a Startup will succeed. How does Thurston’s model work? It’s rooted in the mountains of data he has collected on market and corporate dynamics, including the anticipation of future changes in the […]
Video: Real-Time Big Data Analytics from Deployment to Production
April 29, 2013 by
In this video from the Strata 2013 Conference, David Smith from Revolution Analytics describes the five stages of real-time analytics deployment, and the technologies supporting each stage, including Hadoop, R, and database warehousing systems. He also shares some best practices for setting up a the technology stack and processes for model deployment, based on some […]
Video: Lustre & ZFS go to Hollywood
April 27, 2013 by
In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Josh Judd from Warp Mechanics presents: Lustre & ZFS go to Hollywood. WARP Mechanics Ltd. is a leading provider of high performance computing (HPC) solutions. The company mission is to bring these super computing technologies into broader IT markets. Each WARP product is factory-optimized for […]
High Performance RDMA-based Design for Big Data and Web 2.0 memcached
April 26, 2013 by
In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, D.K. Panda from Ohio State University presents: High Performance RDMA-based Design for Big Data and Web 2.0 memcached. You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.
Sage Weil Presents: An Intro to Ceph for HPC
April 25, 2013 by
In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Sage Weil from Inktank presents: An Intro to Ceph for HPC. Ceph is a free software unified storage platform designed to present object, block, and file storage from a single distributed cluster. Ceph’s main goals are to be completely distributed without a single point of […]
Eadline: Is Hadoop the New HPC?
April 25, 2013 by
Over at Admin HPC, Douglas Eadline writes that Hadoop could be the new corporate HPC for Big Data. The growth of Hadoop and the hardware on which it runs has been increasing. Certainly it can be seen as a subset of HPC, offering a single yet powerful algorithm that has been optimized for a large […]
