Archive for July, 2012
Walls Come Tumbling Down…
Posted in Tech Talk on Jul 27, 2012 No Comments »
I just returned from an almost-2-week vacation, and it’s actually good to be back at work. I’m rested and ready to launch myself back into the regular routine. I’ll blog on some interesting vacation observations in a few days, but wanted to cover some recent customer activity that occurred before I left on my global [...]
A Series on Hadoop Architecture
Posted in Tech Talk on Jul 13, 2012 1 Comment »
As my guest blogger, this is Matt’s second installment on his series on Hadoop and MapReduce. Specifically, he explores the viability of the Hadoop and MapReduce framework for Computational Science and Engineering. Traditionally, CSE environments have focused on the inter-processor and parallel communications for forming huge compute clusters. Hadoop and MapReduce are very different approaches [...]
Why are Hadoop and MapReduce Eating the World? (Part 1 of a Series on Hadoop Architecture)
Posted in Tech Talk on Jul 2, 2012 No Comments »
As my guest blogger, Matt is starting to provide more insight about interesting subjects. Here, read part 1 of a multi-part series on the Hadoop and MapReduce architectures compared to traditional programming approaches. Why are Hadoop and MapReduce eating the world? What makes Hadoop so popular and how does Hadoop process volumes of data – [...]
