Big data to drive high performance computing demand
"This is just one example of the business opportunities big data can deliver," says McNiven. In countries like the US, big data processing demand is already driving increased uptake in high performance computing (HPC) solutions, with HPC already making …
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Peter Thiel: Mobile computing, big data, and edu software nothing but buzzwords
In fact, he didn't touch the book at all. Instead, Thiel spoke at length about his healthy skepticism of education and healthcare IT software, mobile computing, SaaS, the cloud, and even big data. For him, these amount to Valley buzzwords — and …
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NSF seeks big data middleware for scientific computing
The National Science Foundation wants to explore ways new commercial big data tools might be brought to bear on the data management and analysis challenges of research-oriented scientific computing. The NSF awarded a $ 5 million grant to university …
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Microsoft Previews Hadoop Big Data Analytics on Azure HDInsight
In many cases, Storm will integrate with an event queuing system like Event Hubs or Apache Kafka," wrote Oliver Chiu, product marketing for Hadoop/big data and data warehousing for Microsoft Azure, in a blog post. Apache Storm is an open source project …
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