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A slide from Cassandra presentation:

I’ve just read Sergey Melnik et al. article about Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets. Amazing stuff, especially the way columnar representation or nested data is encoded.

See my mind map of the article:

(click on mind map to see more detailed version)

Amazon introduced new EC2 instance type called  ”Cluster GPU”. Instance type is written as “cg1.4xlarge”.

It allows to use the abilities of GPU (Graphic Processing Unit, a special processor available in some graphics cards) for advanced calculations. It handles long arrays of data called vectors especially quickly.

cg1.4xlarge has the following specs:

• Two NVIDIA Tesla M2050 “Fermi” GPUs.
• Two quad-core Intel “Nehalem“ X5570 processors offering 33.5 ECUs (EC2 Compute Units).
• 22 GB of RAM.
• 1690 GB of local instance storage.
• 10 Gbps Ethernet, with the ability to create low latency, full bisection bandwidth HPC clusters.

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