Rise of the Machines: Moving from hype to reality in the burgeoning market for machine-to-machine communication On the Brink of Something Big: sizing the M2M market
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Should Pragmatic Chaos or Epagogix determine future of our human entertainment?
Cinematch, Dinasour Planet, and finally Pragmatic Chaos –predicting what movie you might want to watch- is determining 60% of the movies being rented. Pragmatic Chaos got the 1 million dollar prize. Prize for reading what is in your brain. The above photo is from the ceremony in New York City. (20 Sept 2009) for more photos visit. On the other side of the equation we have companies like Epagogix. In their web site they define…
Read MoreReal SAP HANA Customer Performance Test Case I (from Turkey)
55 minutes to 2 seconds 1650x Sales Reporting in a retailer in Turkey. With SAP HANA a report which lasted 55 minutes were reported over the in-memory technology of SAP in 2 Seconds. That means a 1650x improvement. See it for yourself
Read MoreWhat is Information?
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.
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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.
Read MoreHome Made Super Computer
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…
Read MoreWhat is Next for CPU?
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…
Read MoreApplication Massive Parallel Computing: Heart Surgery By A Robot Arm
Heart Surgery with Robot Arm Amazing video about new generation surgery. On other thing about this type of surgery is the computational power that is embeded in the operating unit. Actually the heart is still beating and the unit has the ability to display the beating heard as a still surface. This is just possible by Parallel Processing in the GPU. Pealing a Grape
Read MoreForrester wave Enterprise data warehousing platforms Q1 2011
Forrester wave Enterprise data warehousing platforms Q1 2011. See power of SAP and Sybase joint offering.
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