Big Data and high performance computing (HPC) are on a collision course – from machine learning to business intelligence, the combined power of clustered servers, advanced networking and massive datasets are merging, and a new Big Data reality is on the rise. To leverage all this landscape has to offer, correctly selecting, implementing and managing […]
Optimizing HPC Program Performance with OpenMP and Reveal
September 29, 2016 By
What do you do when the performance of the MPI program that distributes your work across many cores and nodes starts to level off? Like any good programmer, you enlist the help of your favorite performance profiler to understand what’s going on. You find that you are now network bound, or that the MPI memory […]
Nlyte Software is the First to Address Federal DCOI Reporting and Validation
September 29, 2016 By
As federal budgets face tighter scrutiny, government agencies at all levels have been seeking innovative ways to operate more efficiently at lower cost without compromising security. Consolidating and optimizing government data centers is an important way to shift more IT resources from back-office activities to value-added services. In March 2016, the Federal CIO at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) […]
Should You Build in-house or Outsource Development of Your Mobile Apps?
September 26, 2016 By
Once an enterprise has decided to go down the path of building native mobile apps, there is one critical decision involved –whether to build these apps in-house or to outsource development. This post is the continuation of a series discussing why a CTO makes or breaks your enterprise mobile strategy and in case you’ve missed […]
AWS ElasticSearch Setup
September 26, 2016 By
This is the first of a two-part post on getting Amazon’s version of ElasticSearch set up in AWS. We go over the basics of setting up an AWS ES cluster and then tackle supplying the cluster with data via Logstash in our next post. Amazon has taken all the fun (read: difficulty) out of creating […]
Hortonworks: Using Machine and Sensor Data to Proactively Maintain Public Infrastructure
September 22, 2016 By
Metro Transit of St. Louis (MTL) operates the public transportation system for the St. Louis metropolitan region. Hortonworks Data Platform helps MTL meet their mission by storing and analyzing IoT data from the city’s Smart Buses, which helped the agency cut average cost per mile driven by its buses from $0.92 to $0.43. It achieved […]
