Intersect360 Updated HPC Forecast Available

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Written by Number Six

Published: 21 August 2020

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Updated Forcaset Intersect360

HPC and hyperscale analyst Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research gave a presentation on August 6, 2020. The entire presentation and slides are available on Intersect 360 webpage (Thanks i360).

If you are curious how HPC may play out in the COVID-19 pandemic, watch the presentation (including questions at the end). Slides are also helpful, but Addison provides good context . For the impatient, here are the conclusions:

• Demand for high-performance computing endures. HPC is a long-term, stable growth market.
• Regardless of COVID-19, dynamics were shifting toward:
  • Increase in cloud computing, or other cloud-like deployments
  • Increase in government spending
• COVID-19 accelerates both of these trends
• HPC vendors should expect purchases to be delayed in 2020, followed by a boom year in 2021 as sales cycles come back in. However, not all lost revenue is recaptured.
• There is significant risk in this forecast. Two significant factors are:
  1. How long COVID-19 persists as an economic damper.
  2. The health of HPC vendors and their ability to ride out the market instability.

Hadoop Is Not a Toaster

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Written by Douglas Eadline

Published: 18 September 2019

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From the "Here comes the cluestick" department

Apache Hadoop has been in the press lately. Some of the content has not been positive and, often times, reflects a misunderstanding of how Hadoop relates to data processing. Indeed, we seem to be in the Trough of Disillusionment in the Technology Hype Cycle. In my opinion, many of these recent "insights" seem to come from the belief that Hadoop is some kind of toaster. For the record, Hadoop can make great toast and as it traveled up the hype curve, market exuberance thought good tasting toast could do anything. Turns out, these days, people want something to go along with their toast. What happened to the great toast?

Nothing happened to the toast. It turns out that Hadoop may have started out as a toaster, but now it is quite a bit more. Hadoop has evolved into a full kitchen. To understand modern Hadoop technology, one must understand that just like kitchen that is designed to prepare food for consumption, Hadoop is designed as a platform to prepare data for analysis and insights.

Scale Up Your HPC Job Interviews

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Written by Alex McKee

Published: 09 March 2020

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Give your HPC resume a performance boost by creating a Resume Profile

If your job search was a parallel program, then your resume would be the code that outputs interviews. You wouldn’t want to scale up your job count until your code is optimized and bug free, right?

An inefficient resume can cause you a lot of wasted time, extending your job search out for several months. Sure, brute forcing your job search by sending out 100’s of resumes will typically land you a job, eventually. But it’s likely that you will burn-out before then, or get into a “I’ll take anything I can get” mindset.

So what can you do to optimize your resume to increase your interview rate?

There are several ways, but one stands out in my book as the most important, and that is adding a resume profile at the top of your resume.

New Documents Available to Site Users

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Written by Administrator

Published: 22 August 2019

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From the secret double bonus department

A somewhat un-publicized feature of Cluster Monkey are the PDF documents that registered users can download. These documents include white papers on Limulus Personal computing, a brief book called HPC for Dummies and the PowerPoint slides describing the 3D printing at SC19. To download any of the files you need to register with your email address. When logged in, a Downloads item will appear in the blue Main Menu area on the top left of the page. There you will find the materials.

We ask for your email because we are working on starting two low frequency newsletters covering HPC and Hadoop/Spark. We explain how we treat your information in our Privacy Policy. Also, as a registered user you can leave comments on articles. Cluster Monkey is a community based web-site.

One of our newest documents is a white paper comparing an on-prem Limulus personal appliance to Amazon Cloud instances. The economics are quite interesting. You can also find the slides from our 3D printing demonstration at SC19 and a 2018 white paper on building a Modern Scalable Analytics Classroom--on-prem/no data center needed.