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Posted in Grid Computing on Jan 15th, 2010
Sun (or is that Oracle…) has released a new version of their Grid Engine which brings it into the cloud.
There are two main additions in this release. The First is is integration with Apache Hadoop in which Hadoop jobs can now be submitted to Grid Engine, as if they were any other computation [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Dec 8th, 2009
Further to the post that we outlined from Ricky Ho on NOSQL, he now has an additional post on Query Processing for NOSQL. This is well worth a read as many of the NOSQL products have fairly primitive query capabilities and Ricky outlines how this can be approached. I’d recommend reading the comments at the [...]
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Dec 8th, 2009
It seems that Apple has pulled the project to implement the ZFS file system over the mac, apparently due to licensing issues (no surprise there, now that Sun is in the hands of Oracle).
Mac’s OX extended format is synonymous with HFS+. HFS+ used B-Trees to store volume metadata and has being around since Mac OS 8.1 so [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Nov 23rd, 2009
Ricky Ho has done a great job of providing a thorough overview of the characteristics and patterns of what are being terms NOSQL products. This includes looking at products purporting to be NOSQL products, API’s ,data partitioning, data replication, client consistency, vector clock, and more. A very good read.
Posted in Grid Computing on Oct 11th, 2009
For those who use Sun Grid Engine or are interested in knowing more about it there is a nice post on the blog “memories of a product manager” outlining new features coming the December 2009 release.
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Oct 9th, 2009
Video of a pre-release Nehalem-EX Processor shows its capabilities running an NYSE trading simulation.
Posted in Grid Computing, HPC, Microchips, Programming on Sep 19th, 2009
Apple’s Grand Central a new set of technologies released with Snow Leopard designed to make parallelisation and concurrency simpler for programmers. Apple has extended Objective-C which now includes support for closures and makes it easier to implement control structures that support concurrency. In essence Grand Central makes it easier to write parallelisable software.
Similarily Microsoft recently [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Sep 16th, 2009
Interesting article from Pawel Plaszack and the BigDatamatters team that looks at GigaSpaces XAP, JBoss Cache and. InfiniSpan, with also a limited features table overview (re-presented below).
I guess I would add (and I am a little biased !) that the dual public and private cloud deployment features of GigaSpaces should also not be ignored in an industry [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Sep 15th, 2009
It wasn’t unexpected that someone would throw DataSynapse a lifeline, it had been on the ropes for a while. I am just annoyed that I missed it as was on holiday when it happened. I apologise then if my comment seems rather late.
On the 24th August, they day I left for a nice long vacation, [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Sep 14th, 2009
An excerpt from the our book, on Cloud Computing Best Practices, is currently featured on the Sys-Con Cloud Computing Journal site.
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