Thanks to Keith and Gloria Gathercole. This brilliant article was penned by Keith and Gloria as a tribute to Rejean Lanthier who sadly passed away…
Unfortunately, the sissons.ca website has been neglected for several years. I let it go off the air in 2017 after getting busy with other things.…
YMCA Camp Falcona Contributed Article The article below is a re-post of an article that appears in a YMCA newsletter. The original article appears here…
On June 13th I traveled to Ottawa to support our good friends Brian and Sue Parsons in the Ottawa Walk for ALS. I was also…
Sharing is good. Whether we’re sharing a soda, an apartment or an HPC cluster, chances are good that sharing can save us money. As readers…
This proves I have too much time on my hands, but I thought it would be fun to setup a small test cluster using the…
From 50,000 all water looks drinkable. I need to credit my former manager Paul Giroux at Sun Microsystems with this nugget. It’s one of several…
New tooling built into BigInsights for Hadoop simplifies landing and processing raw twitter data. If you blinked you might have missed it, but back in…
Big Compute meets Big Data HPC systems have evolved significantly over the last two decades. While once the dominion of purpose-built supercomputers, today, clustered systems…
Untangling YARN: Building a Multitenant Hadoop Environment All in the Hadoop world are excited about YARN. For those who don’t follow goofy topics like this,…