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Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., Preprint A recent TwThread drew my attention to this pre-print paper. When spreadsheets were originally conceived, data and formula were input by hand and so everything operated at human scale. Increasingly we’re dealing with larger and larger datasets — for example, data imported via csv files — and spreadsheets … Continue reading Benchmarking spreadsheet systems

High Performance Computing (HPC): it’s no longer just for government labs and academic institutions. In my conversations with members of the HPC community worldwide, I’m constantly inspired by new, novel HPC applications, including the need for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and high-performance data analytics to run the most complex workloads and process the mass amounts of ...continue reading High Performance Computing Opens Possibilities for Smart Cities

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During AWS re:Invent 2019, we announced a number of High Performance Computing (HPC) innovations including the Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances powered by next-generation Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Processors. We also recently announced that new AMD-powered, compute-optimized EC2 instances are in the works.

Today, I'm happy to share some exciting news about our HPC solutions. On November 18, AWS won six HPCwire Readers' and…

It’s not surprising that data has surpassed the value of precious resources like gold or oil. After all, modern businesses run on data. So the need to understand and maximize its value will only grow more imperative.

MemSQL’s breakthrough new “SingleStore” data management, enhanced system of record capabilities, time series enhancements, and more, are now available instantly and on demand with MemSQL Helios. MemSQL is proud to announce the general availability of MemSQL 7.0, available first on MemSQL Helios, the company’s elastic cloud database available on public cloud providers around the globe. Fully managed and available on demand, MemSQL Helios delivers instant, effortless access to the world’s fastest, most scalable data platform for operational analytics, machine learning and AI. MemSQL 7.0 delivers new, fast resilience features; the first iteration of MemSQL SingleStore, delivering table type convergence; new …

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Thorn’s child sex trafficking investigations tool, Spotlight, gathers information from escort sites to provide law enforcement with a tool to help find trafficked children, fast. (A Special Agent for the Wisconsin Human Trafficking Task Force describes Spotlight this way: “It is the greatest tool we have in the fight against human trafficking.“) And using MemSQL is one of the ways they do it. MemSQL is a powerful solution that meets Thorn’s requirements, including SQL support; fast query response time; support for machine learning and AI; a large and scalable number of simultaneous users; and horizontal scale-out. Also, MemSQL runs just …

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In this age of digital innovation, organizations need to have continuous insight into data about their services, users, and the resources powering these services. In this article, we explore how Kinetica delivers high-performance streaming and live analytics on a …

MemSQL is uniquely suited to real-time analytics, where data is being ingested, updated, and queried concurrently with aggregate queries. Real-time analytics use cases often are based on event data, where each separate event has a timestamp. It’s natural to interpret such a sequence of events as a time series. Prior to the 7.0 release, MemSQL delivered many capabilities that make it well-suited to time-series data management [Han19]. These include: a scaled-out, shared-nothing architecture that supports transactional and analytical workloads with a standard SQL interface, fast query execution via compilation and vectorization, combined with scale out, ability to load data phenomenally …

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Almost three years ago, Carnegie Mellon University Prof. Dave Andersen and I announced the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Cloud Systems (ISTC-VCS) at the 2016 NAB Show. Along with Prof. Kayvon Fatahalian at Stanford, Dave has led the center and collaborated closely with other academic and Intel Labs researchers to push the boundaries ...continue reading Seeing Further Down the Visual Cloud Road

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve spent more time in airports, conference halls and boardrooms than at home, but the benefit to being on the road is that I get the opportunity to spend time with colleagues and partners. It’s an invaluable chance to hear the top-of-mind questions, issues, and challenges that matter most to ...continue reading Innovation Needs Advanced Collaboration

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Declarative assembly of web applications from predefined concepts De Rosso et al., Onward! 2019 I chose this paper to challenge my own thinking. I’m not really a fan of low-code / no-code / just drag-and-drop-from-our-catalogue forms of application development. My fear is that all too often it’s like jumping on a motorbike and tearing off … Continue reading Declarative assembly of web applications from pre-defined concepts

Data is valuable. Or I should write, some data is valuable. You may think that if the data is important to you, then you must store it in the persistent volume, like a database or filesystem. This sentence is obviously true. However, there are many use cases in which you don’t want to sacrifice the […]

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Efficient lock-free durable sets Zuriel et al., OOPSLA’19 Given non-volatile memory (NVRAM), the naive hope for persistence is that it would be a no-op: what happens in memory, stays in memory. Unfortunately, a very similar set of issues to those concerned with flushing volatile memory to persistent disk exist here too, just at another level. … Continue reading Efficient lock-free durable sets

Even though MemSQL is a distributed system, you can run a minimal version of MemSQL on your laptop in Kubernetes. We tell you how in this blog post. The combination of free access, and being able to run MemSQL on your laptop, can be extremely convenient for demos, software testing, developer productivity, and general fooling around. In this post we’ll quickly build a single-instance MemSQL cluster running inside Kubernetes on Docker Desktop, on a laptop computer, for free. You’ll need a machine with at least 8GB RAM and four CPUs. This is ideal for quickly provisioning a system to understand …

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TLA+ model checking made symbolic Konnov et al., OOPSLA’19 TLA+ is a formal specification language (Temporal Logic of Actions) particularly well suited to reasoning about distributed algorithms. In addition to the specification language, the TLA+ toolset includes a model checker (TLC) and a theorem prover (TLAPS). Given the huge state spaces involved in many real-world … Continue reading TLA+ model checking made symbolic