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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. It’s architecture was specially designed to manage large-scale data warehouses and business intelligence workloads by giving you the ability to spread your data out across a multitude of servers.

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Current status, needs, and challenges in Heterogeneous and Composable Memory from the HCM workshop (HPCA’23)

ACM Sigarch

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In addition to its goal of reducing energy costs, Shell needed to be more agile in deploying IT services and planning for user demand. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. These distributed storage services also play a pivotal role in big data and analytics operations.

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The Winds of Architecture Changes at the USENIX ATC 2019

ACM Sigarch

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. As a consequence, the vast majority of the papers in the past has usually focused on conventional X86 or GPU-accelerated architectures.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

It helps to achieve the following goals: Smaller dimensionality helps to concentrate the energy of the signal, so each basis vector significantly contributes to the rating estimation. On the right side, the rating is estimated by convolving two vectors of reduced dimensionality and higher energy density. Multiple objectives.

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