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. … Google Pits Dataflow Against Spark was written by Timothy...
View ArticleIn-Memory Breathes New Life Into NUMA
Hyperscalers and the academics that often do work with them have invented a slew of distributed computing methods and frameworks to get around the problem of scaling up shared memory systems based on...
View ArticleCisco Connects With SGI For Big NUMA Iron
When supercomputer maker SGI tweaked its NUMA server technology to try to pursue sales in the datacenter, the plan was not to go it alone but rather to partner with the makers of workhorse Xeon servers...
View ArticleHPE Expands HPC Reach With SGI Buy
Supercomputer maker SGI has been going it alone in the upper echelons of the computing arena for decades and has brought much innovation to bear on some of the most intractable simulation, modeling,...
View ArticleThanks For The Memories
It is probably a myth that Bill Gates said “640 KB ought to be enough,” and whether or not he said it the truth is that it has never been enough. … Thanks For The Memories was written by James Cuff at...
View ArticleThe Cloudy Future Of SAP HANA
Sometimes here in the 21st century, cloudy means good. Like most of its counterparts in the IT industry, SAP sees much of its future and that of its HANA in-memory database platform being in the cloud....
View ArticleStorage Pioneer on What the Future Holds for In-Memory AI
To catch a glimpse of the future of what memory devices and approaches will dominate the AI-centric datacenter, there are few better forecasters than Evangelos Eleftheriou. … Storage Pioneer on What...
View ArticleApache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases
A decade ago, Fangjin “FJ” Yang was a software architect at startup Metamarkets, a company that was building a user-facing analytics engine that a lot of developers simultaneously could go to, click on...
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