How can a $35 book go upto $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping) at AMAZON? Real Story !

Posted on 18/12/201107/02/2012 by Ugur

After a few days From http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358 Michael Eisen’ Blog: “….But two questions remained. Why were they doing this, and how long would it go on before they noticed? As I amusedly watched the price rise every day, I learned that Amazon retailers are increasingly using algorithmic pricing (something Amazon itself does on a large scale), with a number of companies offering pricing algorithms/services to retailers. Both profnath and bordeebook were clearly using automatic pricing –…

Transforming BI for Extreme DATA–Why is it relevant for Today? Why Today? IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow 2011

Posted on 11/12/201111/12/2011 by Ugur

IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow 2011 View more presentations from ugur candan. In this presentation I tried to explain why big data or extreme data problems are so trendy. There is a specific reason for this. For those who attended the event I hope it is clear. For those who have not attended you need to walk over the presentation to have an idea.

Gamification of eEducation System: Where should we start?

Posted on 11/12/201111/12/2011 by Ugur

Gamification of eEducation View more presentations from ugur candan. Our current education system is engineered during the industrial revolution and have not seen radical changes ever since. With the emerging mobile technologies I do believe that the learning experience could dramatically change. The main problem is having a batch of students receiving the same educational curriculum. 1- Unfortunately the speed and the interest level of all students vary dramatically and without technological help it is…

Video: Evolution of A New Architecture SAP HANA

Posted on 29/08/201129/08/2011 by Ugur

Evolution of SAP HANA and in-memory Computing !

What is SAP HANA? Why is SAP HANA a Game Changer? What Drives in-memory Computing?

Posted on 22/08/201123/08/2011 by Ugur

Why is SAP HANA a game changer?

What is Information?

Posted on 16/07/201118/07/2011 by Ugur

This is a short film by MAYA Design about information. Although most of us think we know what we mean when we say “information,” we sometimes confuse the medium with the message. This is a companion piece to our film about architecture.

What is Architecture?

Posted on 16/07/201109/12/2018 by Ugur

I was in search for a good definition for a software architecture. I had noticed this fantastic video about “what achitecture is”. This is a short film by MAYA Design about architecture in its broadest sense. This film is a companion piece to our film about information. I really appreciated the ease of use and clarity.

Home Made Super Computer

Posted on 18/06/201113/08/2011 by Ugur

Integrating CUDA into a Large-Scale Commercial Database Management System Richard Wilton, Tamas Budavari, Alex Szalay – The Johns Hopkins University In a large-scale database installation where data tables are distributed across multiple servers, computational throughput can be optimized by using GPUs on each server and integrating database management with GPU resources. In the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, we are experimenting with a set of software tools that closely couple SQL statements…

What is Next for CPU?

Posted on 18/06/201118/06/2011 by Ugur

Power Wall+ Memory Wall + ILP (Instruction level parallelism) Wall= Brick Wall There are two ways to scale speed by a factor x. Scale the number of (running) cores by x Power will scale by the same factor x Scale the clock frequency f and voltage V by x Dynamic power will scale by x to the power 3 (CV2f ) Static power will scale by x (Vileakage) Total power lies somewhere in between Clock scaling is worse…

Exadata is Still Oracle

Posted on 14/06/201109/12/2018 by Ugur

View more from ugur candan. Oracle Exadata Database Machine – Storage, architecture, database machine Exadata for Datawarehousing – Why Exadata is not Not an Intelligent Storage Not Shared Anything Not enable High Concurrency Not support Active Datawarehousing Not provide Superior Query Performance Is Complex

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