Getting started with Vantiv’s Express API
Some developers may already be familiar with Vantiv’s Express API as an interface for processing card present…
June trip to Ottawa
On June 13th I traveled to Ottawa to support our good friends Brian and Sue Parsons in…
Kicking at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight
Friends & colleagues, Forgive the solicitation. (for the time challenged you can click here to donate and…
Why Analytic Clusters are like Bananas
Realizing a more cost-efficient elastic infrastructure Most of us recall the notion of elasticity from Economics 101….
Think Life Sciences can’t evolve any faster? Bobo doesn’t want to hear it!
Published at http://blog.lenovo.com/ To say that life sciences research is evolving rapidly would be an understatement. Sequencing…
Accelerating R with multi-node parallelism – Rmpi, BatchJobs and OpenLava
Gord Sissons, Feng Li In a previous blog we showed how we could use the R BatchJobs…
Fairshare scheduling – How fair is fair?
Sharing is good. Whether we’re sharing a soda, an apartment or an HPC cluster, chances are good…
An HPC cluster for the cheapest of cheapskates
This proves I have too much time on my hands, but I thought it would be fun…
From 50,000 feet all water looks drinkable
From 50,000 all water looks drinkable. I need to credit my former manager Paul Giroux at Sun…
Walking on clouds – IBM and Twitter
New tooling built into BigInsights for Hadoop simplifies landing and processing raw twitter data. If you blinked…