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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…

This Week’s Big Data Big Five

This week we swoop in over Cray’s headquarters in Seattle, where all is uncharacteristically bright and sunny, look into what DDN is doing to simplify big data storage, gaze briefly at Actian Corporation and its... Read more…

HPC Accelerates the Rate of Scientific Discovery!

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There have been numerous breakthroughs in science during the last year, utilizing the many unique advances in high performance supercomputing. National Laboratories, Universities and Research Centers worldwide have been leveraging HPC to push the human understanding of physics, chemistry and biology across numerous application domains – let’s look at some examples. 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…

Fujitsu Says Big Data Pushing HPC into Mainstream

According to many in the HPC community, especially on the hardware side, the big data trend (and all the buzz associated with it) is creating new opportunities for the once “high and mighty” world of supercomputing. This is a field that.... 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…

Interview: Cray CEO Sees Big Future in Big Data

During the this year's annual Supercomputing Conference (SC11) in Seattle, Cray's home turf, we caught up with the company's CEO, Peter Ungaro to talk about the increasing meld between big data and traditional supercomputing--and what this blend could portend for Cray going forward. Read more…

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