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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…

Tallying Hadoop’s Hard Numbers

Hadoop is emerging as not only one of the premier big data infrastructures but also a relatively cheap one for some users. While it’s no simple task to get a handle on how many users are floating the elephant with so many distributions and a fractured ecosystem... Read more…

Big Data Plumbing Startup Scores Backing

GridGain, a high performance cloud middleware startup, secured a $2.5 million investment this week. The company's score is based on their ability to optimize environments designed to chew through large amounts of time-sensitive data. Read more…

DDN Addresses Scalability Wall

Data Direct Networks (DDN) issued a letter to the high performance computing community this week following the supercomputing industry's annual conference that addresses the storage side of the big data and exascale eras that are necessitating I/O innovations. Read more…

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