Thanks to Bill Podell, VP Big Data and BI Practice, MBI Solutions, for the guest post below.Capacity planning has long been a critical component of successful implementations for production systems. Today, Big Data calls for a particularly deep understanding of capacity management – because resource utilization explodes as business users, analysts, and data scientists jump onboard to analyze and use […]
By Andrew Crotty, Alex Galakatos, and Tim Kraska, Brown UniversityThe increasing prevalence of big data across all industries and sciences is causing a profound shift in the nature and scope of analytics. Increasingly complex computations, ranging from machine learning to predictive modeling, are fast becoming the norm. Users commonly express such tasks as a collection of user-defined functions (UDFs), preferably written in […]
NVIDIA GPU accelerators have emerged in High-Performance Computing as an energy-efficient way to provide significant compute capability. The Green500 supercomputer list makes this clear: the top 10 supercomputers on the list feature NVIDIA GPUs. Today at the 2014 GPU Technology Conference, NVIDIA announced a new interconnect called NVLink which enables the next step in harnessing the full potential of the […]
