The Cloudera distribution that includes Apache Hadoop was found to be 81% faster than Oracle Sun X2270 cluster Fremont, Calif. – October 17, 2011 – SGI, the leader in technical computing, today announced that it has set a new world record on the Terasort Benchmark for processing and analyzing data using Apache Hadoop clusters running […]
IBM announced yesterday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Platform Computing, a privately held company based in Toronto, Canada. Platform Computing is a global leader in cluster and grid management software for distributed computing environments. The acquisition is expected to take place in the fourth quarter of 2011. Financial terms were […]
What unites the two drugs with cloud computing. Well, it’s simple. A recent news Ansa informs us that a version of ecstasy would be used to treat blood cancers, moreover Ansa itself communicates that the DNA sequence of marijuana has been completed and has been made public. There has already been a lot of talk […]
Despite the draft definition of NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, we continue to talk about Cloud Computing as if it were the technology capable of doing everything. One of these much-mentioned features is the alleged innate scalability of the technology, so let’s start with a proper understanding of scalability first: We can define […]
We came across this Grid Computing in continuous research between CERN and HP. There was the possibility to register and use the computational power on consumption. A complex platform all java and Xen based. The experiments of use did not last long but they were useful to make us reflect a lot on the importance […]