Tag: Distributed

  • Distributed application cache for Kubernetes running Java Hibernate applications with Oracle Coherence Community Edition

    Distributed application cache for Kubernetes running Java Hibernate applications with Oracle Coherence Community Edition

    Distributed application cache for Kubernetes running Java Hibernate applications with Oracle Coherence Community Edition Introduction While working on a data set it is important that it stays easily and quickly accessible. Hibernate second-level caching with Coherence offers applications a resource optimized solution that keeps frequently used data in memory, by distributing it among different application

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  • Evaluation of Erasure Coding in Hadoop 3

    Evaluation of Erasure Coding in Hadoop 3

    Evaluation of Erasure Coding in Hadoop 3 Authored By: Nazerke Seidan, Emil Kleszcz, Zbigniew Baranowski Published By: CERN IT-DB-SAS In this post, we will dive into the evaluation of the Erasure Coding feature of Hadoop 3 that I worked on this summer as a CERN Openlab intern. The evaluation has been performed on one of

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  • Machine Learning Pipelines for High Energy Physics Using Apache Spark with BigDL and Analytics Zoo

    Machine Learning Pipelines for High Energy Physics Using Apache Spark with BigDL and Analytics Zoo

    Machine Learning Pipelines for High Energy Physics Using Apache Spark with BigDL and Analytics Zoo Topic: This post describes a data pipeline for a machine learning task of interest in high energy physics: building a particle classifier to improve event selection at the particle detectors. The pipeline is built using tools from the “Big Data

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  • Performance Analysis of a CPU-Intensive Workload in Apache Spark

    Performance Analysis of a CPU-Intensive Workload in Apache Spark

    Performance Analysis of a CPU-Intensive Workload in Apache Spark Topic: This post is about techniques and tools for measuring and understanding CPU-bound and memory-bound workloads in Apache Spark. You will find examples applied to studying a simple workload consisting of reading Apache Parquet files into a Spark DataFrame. Why are the topics discussed here relevant

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  • Using Tiered Storage in Alluxio

    Using Tiered Storage in Alluxio

    Using Tiered Storage in Alluxio Introduction Alluxio is an open source memory speed virtual distributed storage system. A brief overview of Alluxio has been covered in a previous blog. This post will cover one of the most powerful features of Alluxio, which is its tiered storage capabilities. Tiered storage allows the Alluxio volume to be

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  • Experiences of Using Alluxio with Spark

    Experiences of Using Alluxio with Spark

    Experiences of Using Alluxio with Spark Introduction Alluxio refers to itself as an “Open Source Memory Speed Virtual Distributed Storage” platform. It sits between the storage and processing framework layers in the distributed computing ecosystem and claims to heavily improve performance when multiple jobs are reading/writing from/to the same data. This post will cover some

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