Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Typically an MPP system has one leader node and one or many compute nodes.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Nokia hired a manager from Microsoft to wed the handset business to any alternative mobile operating system to iOS that wasn't made by Google. Hence there has been increased consolidation (proposed and real) in the automotive industry in the past decade: an automaker needs scale to develop EV technologies to compete.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Social Media Automotive Mobile 52

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Comments ().

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118