Garth Gibson About HPC and Big Data Applications
Garth Gibson[1] discusses the similaritis and differences between HPC and big data applications in terms of scale of data and challenges.
Most of the time I take filesystems for granted. But that’s exactly what NoSQL database are not doing. Just as a quick example, Basho has designed a special backend for Riak whose main focus is minimizing disk access in order to provide consistent performance.
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Garth Gibson: principal contribution to computing was developing the RAID taxonomy of redundant data storage systems, along with David A. Patterson and Randy Katz.
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Original title and link: Garth Gibson About HPV and Big Data Applications (©myNoSQL)
