[Beowulf] Big Data and HPC

[Douglas Eadline]

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> On 10/06/14 23:21, Douglas Eadline wrote:
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>> Since our recent discussions on Hadoop (and indirectly the "big
>> data" buzzword) I would like to invite list readers to jump over to
>> ClusterMonkey.net and take a quick poll on HPC and big data.
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> As we're involved in HPC and life sciences there are people who deal
> with vast amounts of data, but with bioinformatics tools, not with
> Hadoop et. al.
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> So, do Python/Perl/Java/R count as Big Data tools in the survey, or
> not? :-)

Yes they count, not all "Big Data" is Hadoop. I'll leave
the discussion about Hadoop V2 and tools for another thread.

--
Doug

PS My poll questions are unscientific attempt to get
a slight sense of what people are doing/thinking in HPC.


>
> cheers!
> Chris
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