Cray Advances Hadoop for HPC

February 4, 2014

In a recent blog entry, Mike Boros, Hadoop Product Marketing Manager at Cray, Inc., writes about the company's positioning of Hadoop for scientific big data. Li Read more…

Accelerate Hadoop MapReduce Performance using Dedicated OrangeFS Servers

September 9, 2013

Recent tests performed at Clemson University achieved a 25 percent improvement in Apache Hadoop Terasort run times by replacing Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) with an OrangeFS configuration using dedicated servers. Key components included extension of the MapReduce “FileSystem” class and a Java Native Interface (JNI) shim to the OrangeFS client. No modifications of Hadoop were required, and existing MapReduce jobs require no modification to utilize OrangeFS. Read more…

Why Big Data Needs InfiniBand to Continue Evolving

April 1, 2013

Increasingly, it’s a Big Data world we live in. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock and need proof of that, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/" target="_blank">a major retailer can use an unimaginable number of data points to predict the pregnancy of a teenage girl outside Minneapolis before she gets a chance to tell her family</a>.  That’s just one example, but there are countless others that point to the idea that mining huge data volumes can uncover gold nuggets of actionable proportions (although sometimes they freak people out...) Read more…

Why Big Data Needs InfiniBand to Continue Evolving

April 1, 2013

Increasingly, it’s a Big Data world we live in. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock and need proof of that, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/" target="_blank">a major retailer can use an unimaginable number of data points to predict the pregnancy of a teenage girl outside Minneapolis before she gets a chance to tell her family</a>.  That’s just one example, but there are countless others that point to the idea that mining huge data volumes can uncover gold nuggets of actionable proportions (although sometimes they freak people out...) Read more…

New OpenSFS Rep on the Future of Lustre

March 12, 2013

OpenSFS has chosen its Community Representative Director for 2013: Tommy Minyard, director of Advanced Computing Systems (ACS) at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). We got the new director's views on Lustre's opportunities in big data and exascale, maintaining a single source tree, and new features on the horizon. Read more…

Free Lectures: Cloud, Virtualization, MapReduce and More

January 7, 2013

Several lectures from the VSCSE Summer School on Science Clouds are now available for viewing on YouTube. Read more…

Cloud Browser Hack Exposed

December 3, 2012

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon show how hackers can anonymously hijack computing power from cloud-based Web browsers. Read more…

Microsoft Brings MapReduce into the Fold

July 18, 2011

Microsoft announced this week that it would be offering its Project Daytona up for scrutiny--an iterative MapReduce framework that they hope will bring researchers flocking to their cloud service. Read more…

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