Processors: Features
Cloudera Releases Impala Into the Wild
The week, Cloudera announced that Impala, their SQL on Hadoop initiative, is moving out of public beta and into general availability. Datanami spoke with Cloudera to get an overview of the state of Impala, how they see it stacking up in the competitive landscape, and where the space will move in the near future.Read more...
Giving Big Data a Sporting Chance
With new information collection techniques adding millions of rows of statistics to the virtual box score, improving a sports team is rapidly becoming a big data problem. A panel led by Jason Bailey, HP Vertica Senior Market Manager, discussed the current and future place of big data in solving the problems of the sporting world.Read more...
Intel Hitches Xeon to Hadoop Wagon
No longer content to sit on the sidelines of major Hadoop events, Intel has unveiled its strategy to tap into the momentum around the open source platform with its own purpose-built distribution. Read more...
This Week in Research
In this week’s dive into deep waters of big data and big compute research, we look at some interesting cloud applications, including rebalancing algorithm aimed at distributed file systems, as well as a new implementation of MapReduce that is said to work across geographically distributed datacenters. We look at some of the research happening at Facebook as they look at alternatives to their 4-post architecture, as well as in-storage processing on SSDs.Read more...
Facing the Challenges of a Parallel Future
Big data requires big processing, but can our current pace keep up with the processing demands of the future? Perhaps not if we continue the status quo, suggested Andreas Olofsson, CEO of chipmaker, Adapteva, in a keynote at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco this week.Read more...
GPUs Push Big Data's Need for Speed
During his keynote this week at the GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang provided a few potent examples of how web-driven big data applications are pushing their real-time delivery envelope by adding GPUs into the fray. Among these users are audio recognition service, Shazam, which....Read more...
Processors: This Just In
HGST Intros 12Gb/s SAS SSDS for Big Data Apps
HGST announced the enterprise-class, multi level cellSAS SSD family – the Ultrastar SSD800MH, Ultrastar SSD800MM and Ultrastar SSD1000MR.Read more...
NVIDIA Expands Emerging Companies Summit
More than a dozen startups will participate in NVIDIA's Emerging Companies Summit.Read more...
Genomics Researcher to Deliver GTC Keynote
NVIDIA today announced its lineup of keynote speakers for the fourth-annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif., March 18-21.Read more...
Univa Brings Enterprise Workload Management to ARM-based Servers
Univa today announced that its Univa Grid Engine software will support ARM, the world's leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier.Read more...
