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Life Sciences Cultivate Streaming Analytics
Transatlantic partners are applying machine-learning algorithms to a financial HPC platform to develop predictive models for studying crop growth patterns and agriculture practices. The partners said the models would inc Read more…
Peek Inside a Hybrid Cloud for Big Genomics Data
Genomics, or the study of human genes, holds an enormous promise to improve the health of people. However, at 80GB to 250GB per sequenced genome, the sheer size of genomics data poses a considerable storage and processin 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…
A Gateway to Unstructured Data
The ability to access the recent explosion of unstructured data, in the forms of social media data as well as video and audio files, can be limited. SGI, with their planned release of the InfinteStorage Gateway on June 15, hopes to quicken that access, with the goal being to provide a single universal place from which to draw all sorts of media types and files. Read more…
Finding SGI’s Needle with UV Big Brain
Two intuitively simple processes, searching and comparing, require two quite different skill sets when applied to large datasets. By literally moving a haystack around, SGI CTO Eng Lim Goh demonstrated the capabilities of the company’s UV Big Brain to accomplish both tasks. Read more…
SGI Plants Big Data Seeds in HPC
Mannel and Conway talked this week about SGI and their various big data functions. Their focus was specifically data-intensive high performance computing, otherwise known as high performance data analytics (HPDA). The talk touched on both the rise of big data within HPC and how SGI has molded to that. Read more…
SGI Spreads Strategic Wings with DataRaptor
SGI hopes DataRaptor will aid companies in building applications based on the MarkLogic operational database. The company's Bill Mannell, who was joined by IDC's Steve Conway, drew parallels between high performance systems, big data and the new breed of applications that are... Read more…
One Giant Leap for Psychohistory
SGI's UV2, which it touts as the world’s largest in-memory data mining system, is behind a recent project to "map the world according to Wiki" and reveal insights about the connections between history, society and geography. The researcher behind the project who is known for his.... Read more…
This Week’s Big Data Big Seven
We wrap up this week with news about a new high performance, data-intensive supercomputer from SGI, new Hadoop announcements, including those from Hortonworks, Datameer, and Karmasphere, some software enhancements for big data infrastructure from ScaleOut and some other startup goodness--all with an eye on next week's International.... Read more…