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Mercedes Renders Big Data with NVIDIA
Striking photorealistic creations that capture the appeal and lure of the iconic Mercedes brand are the latest endeavor of Jeff Patton, a prolific, self-taught, freelance computer graphics (CG) artist. Patton originally created the mechanical illustrations as an example of his skill, but the quality of his work soon captured the attention of Mercedes Benz USA […]
LexisNexis HPCC Systems 10 years old
June 15, 2011 – New York – LexisNexis Risk Solutions today announced that it will offer its data intensive supercomputing platform under a dual license, open source model, as HPCC Systems. HPCC Systems is designed for the enterprise to solve big data problems. The platform is built on top of high performance computing technology, and […]
Hadoop is the Answer! What is the Question?
Tim Negris, the VP of Marketing at 1010data, makes some interesting HADOOPIAN observations in this post. see http://cloudcomputing.sys-com/node/1860458 According to Tim, 1010data doesn’t have much actual overlap with Hadoop, which provides programmatic batch job access to linked content files for text, log and social graph data analytics. I must confess, I have not been paying […]
Big Data I/O Forum Approach
Big Data applications are proliferating rapidly, our objective will be critical to customer’s successful implementation of Big Data applications. The Forum will explore in-dept issues impacting their application, identify real-world paradigms and provide solutions. The Forum will reach out and educate the community and help accelerate adoption of new technologies.
UCSD: Gordon tackling Data Intensive Applications
Data intensive applications are creating a data tsunami requiring new architecture and new ideas. The good folks down at USCD have received a $20 million grant form NSF to attack the data intensive applications. Gordan, AKA Flash Gordon is a supercomputer based on SSD Flash Memory and Virtual Shared Memory.
