Cray: Features
Marking Spikes for the Enterprise Graph
In some ways, the story of Sun Microsystems closely parallels what’s happening with the present merge between high performance computing and the more enterprise-geared momentum behind big data. According to a former Sun lead on the R&D side and current research and development exec at Cray's big data arm, this story can be.... Read more...
Gartner Exclaims "uRiKA!"
Hadoop is synonymous with big data, but perhaps, according to Carl Claunch of Gartner, it should not be. Instead, he suggests an in-memory system like YarcData’s uRiKA might better suited to handle big data graph problems. The research group recently concluded that the in-memory approach--Read more...
20 Lessons Enterprise CIOs Can Learn from Supercomputing
This week the 24th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC12) kicks off in Salt Lake City, bringing together oer ten thousand of the top thinkers in high performance computing (HPC). Aside from the expected exascale and chip talk, however, are some compelling sessions and presentations on Hadoop, MapReduce, graph analytics, benchmarks to measure data-intensive performance and more. This means big opportunities for enterprise execs who...Read more...
Cray: News in Brief
Big IO and the Real Time Future
No stranger to massive data in the HPC context, Cray points to one area that it’s had its paws in for a number of years.Read more...
YarcData Architect on Hadoop’s Fatal Flaw
According to YarcData’s Solutions Architect, James Maltby, Hadoop and MapReduce are less suited to handle some of the complex mapping and reducing tasks than the company's own uRIKA database. He explains the essential difference, nothing that graphs...Read more...
Cray: This Just In
Cray Appoints Prith Banerjee to Board of Directors
Cray appointed Prith Banerjee as a member of the Board and Chair of the Strategic Technology Assessment Committee.Read more...
Cray Grabs Intel Hadoop Distribution for Xtreme Supers
Cray announced a new solution combining Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop with the Cray Xtreme line of supercomputers. Read more...
Cray to Present at Morgan Stanley Conference
Cray Inc. announced today that Peter Ungaro and Paul Hiemstra will be presenting at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, Calif.Read more...
Cray Big Data Arm Reaches Out to W3C to Push SPARQL, RDF Standards
YarcData today announced that it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which is an international community that develops open web standards. Read more...
YarcData Reveals Finalists for Graph Analytics Challenge
The top six entries for the contest, which features $100,000 in prizes including a $70,000 grand prize for the first place winner, were determined to have entered the best submissions for un-partitionable, Big Data graph problems.Read more...
