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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

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. Greenplum’s high performance eliminates the challenge most RDBMS have scaling to petabtye levels of data, as they are able to scale linearly to efficiently process data.

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Tackling the Pipeline Problem in the Architecture Research Community

ACM Sigarch

big-data processing, machine learning, quantum computing, and so on). This is arguably a fundamentally hard problem for computer architecture, but efforts towards open source hardware (eg. Her current work focuses on hardware/software co-design for extremely large-scale deep learning training. Lack of Diversity.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

Starting today, developers, startups, and enterprises—as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations—can use the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. The first platform is a real time, big data platform being used for analyzing traffic usage patterns to identify congestion and connectivity issues.

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