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Rethinking Hadoop for HPC

Hadoop's momentum has caught the eye of those in the high performance computing (HPC) community, who want to participate and benefit from the fast pace of development. However, the relatively poor performance and high la Read more…

Today’s Baseball Analytics Make Moneyball Look Like Child’s Play

Baseball has always been a game of numbers and statistics. But thanks to an explosion of data over the past seven years and the advent of new analytic software running on supercomputers, the game is on the cusp of change Read more…

What You May Have Missed at Strata + Hadoop World 2014

Talk about information overload. If you were one of the lucky 5,000 to attend the Strata + Hadoop World conference last week, then you were subject to a marathon session of big data keynotes delivered continually for the Read more…

Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Performance at Scale

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<p>When organizations sequence and analyze DNA molecules, a common workflow includes steps to move large sets of intermediate or processed data between sequencers and systems dedicated to assembly and analysis. Cray solutions are tailored to meet the computation and data management challenges of today’s next-generation sequencing environments.</p> Read more…

The 2013 Big Data Year in Review

While still in its infancy, the big data technology trend has made a lot of substantial progress since it gained traction at the beginning of this decade. The year 2013 was a big year with advances being made in virtually every quarter of the space. In this feature, we take a look at some of the significant trends that have crossed our desks in the past year -- wrapped up and presented to you with a pretty bow. Out with the old, in with the new -- it's the Datanami 2013 Year in Review! Read more…

Cray Greases Rails for Hadoop on a Supercomputer

Supercomputer company Cray has joined the Hadoop parade with a new framework that it says will give customers the ability to more easily implement and run Apache Hadoop using Cray’s XC30 supercomputers. Read more…

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…

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…

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…

This Week’s Big Data Big Seven

We’re fresh off the chase for stories from the recent Strata HadoopWorld event and now we’re preparing to roll into this coming Supercomputing ’12 conference in Salt Lake City where there will be plenty of big data talk to go around for both scientific and enterprise computing folks. We’ll be reporting live on site from there this coming week. Read more…

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