
We have created Splout Cloud, a web-latency managed service in the AWS cloud. Splout Cloud converts any data files – regardless of their size – into a...
0 replies - 512 views - 04/07/13 by Pere Ferrera Bertran in Articles

In this video, D.K. Panda from Ohio State University presents: Accelerating Big Data with Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce and HBase) and Memcached.
"The SuperMUC...
0 replies - 1882 views - 04/02/13 by Eric Genesky in Articles

In March 2013, I was at 33rd Degree
- "A Conference for Java Masters." I had two talks, including a new
one: "You are not Facebook or Google? Why you...
0 replies - 1294 views - 03/14/13 by Kai Wähner in Articles

I have adapted the WordCount tutorial to Maven based development as this probably the most popular way to develop in companies. I am not going to...
0 replies - 1199 views - 02/13/13 by Armel Nene in Articles

This post is about how-to launch a CDH4 MRv1 or CDH4 Yarn cluster on EC2 instances. It's said that you can launch a cluster with the help of Whirr and in a...
0 replies - 1367 views - 02/12/13 by Swathi Venkatachala in Articles

Testing and debugging multi threaded programs is hard. Now take the same programs and massively distribute them across multiple JVMs deployed on a cluster of...
0 replies - 2198 views - 02/05/13 by Muhammad Ashraf in Articles

Its been a long time since I've blogged... a lapse of 3-4months or so... :( Well, I thought of writing about an awesome tool for performance tuning in...
0 replies - 2147 views - 11/25/12 by Swathi Venkatachala in Articles

Big Data is all about technology and business model innovation. Why?
Because, a lot of next generation business models are DATA centric.
Almost all...
0 replies - 2334 views - 09/10/12 by Ravi Kalakota in Articles

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley released an excellent paper recently,
analyzing
data from the Hadoop installation at Facebook -- one...
0 replies - 1658 views - 09/05/12 by Nikita Ivanov in Articles

Of all the myriad of terms that the tech industry throws around at
the moment, none is as often subverted for marketing spin as “big data”.
So much so...
1 replies - 2220 views - 08/15/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) ver 2 Now leveraging Apache Hadoop 0.23, this public preview release includes:
Next-generation MapReduce Architecture adds...
0 replies - 1863 views - 01/24/12 by Chris Smith in Articles

You may not have noticed that Google applied for a patent on its MapReduce software framework in 2004. Recently, the "Don't Be Evil" company...
2 replies - 5551 views - 01/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Sun Microsystem's Grid Engine was recently updated with plenty of new features, including industry first they say. Grid Engine 6.2 update 5 (SGE 6.2u5) just...
0 replies - 8170 views - 01/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Artificial intelligence is a term frequently associated with science
fiction, not software development. However, A.I. is becoming
increasingly viable as a...
3 replies - 11087 views - 11/30/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News