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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…

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…

Do you like graphs? Your knowledge of SPARQL and RDF can win you $70,000

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This is your chance to be recognized for the best submission for an un-partitionable, Big Data graph problem. Enter the YarcData Graph Analytics Challenge which features a total of $100,000 in prizes for the top 6 finalists. Read more…

Why Cray is Clamoring for Your Code

Cray has thrown out a $100k challenge to attract the best of breed in graph problem solvers. In addition to highlighting the need for innovative new graph problems, Cray wants to highlight the increasing adoption of RDF/SPARQL as the industry standard for graph analytics. We speak with the company's YarcData division president to find out..... Read more…

Cray Parlays Supercomputing Technology Into Big Data Appliance

For the first time in its history, Cray has built something other than a supercomputer. On Wednesday, the company's newly hatched YarcData division launched "uRiKA," a hardware-software solution aimed at real-time knowledge discovery with terascale-sized data sets. The system is designed to serve businesses and government agencies that need to do high-end analytics in areas as diverse as social networking, financial management, healthcare, supply chain management, and national security. Read more…

Cray Opens Doors on Big Data Developments

This week we talked with Cray CEO, Peter Ungaro and the new lead behind the company's just-announced big data division, Arvind Parthasarathi. The latter joined the supercomputing giant recently from Informatica and brings a fresh, software-focused presence to a company that is now an official... Read more…

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