HPC: All content tagged as HPC in NoSQL databases and polyglot persistence
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Big Data vs HPC
Found this great slide showing the fundamental differences between Big Data platforms and HPC in Steve Loughran‘s “My other computer is a datacenter” presentation (embedded at the end):
If there’re just two things to remember about this:
- Big Data is focusing on data, while HPC’s focus is on computing (petabytes vs petaflops)
- Big Data platforms assume failure is inevitable and are architected for it.
Saturday, 24 December 2011
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.
