Science - DB Research Meeting

oliver@xlmpp.com — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Next week I will be attending the next iteration of the xldb group events organized around eXtreme Large Database Applications. xldb workshop

With 100s of Peta Bytes of information waiting to be captured and analyzed, new concepts are required to scale today's platforms by 1-3 orders of magnitudes.

Today we 'limit' ourselves to 'only' capture 40TB/day of incremental incoming data volumes, next [...]

TACC Ranger goes live

oliver@xlmpp.com — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:00:00 +0100

On February 22nd 2008 TACC formally introduced the go-live of RANGER - a massive scale supercomputer. While not a traditional relational processing system, the design shared many components and basic principles of large scale processing platform.

Of particular interest is the multi terabit infiniband interconnect that allows the system to (re)distribute massive amounts of data.

One of the early learnings from the system is that loading massive amounts of data can at times be a [...]

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Science - DB Research Meeting

TACC Ranger goes live