In this special guest feature, Ian Lumb of Bright Computing examines the incredible ascent of the Apache Spark distributed computing platform and provides what he sees as the top 8 reasons why Spark ...

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The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

Apache Spark is an open source cluster computing framework originally developed in 2009 at the AMPLab at University of California, Berkeley but was later donated in 2013 to the Apache Software ...

We called it Machine Learning October Fest. Last week saw the nearly synchronized breakout of a number of news centered around machine learning (ML): The release of PyTorch 1.0 beta from Facebook, ...

A new distributed computing framework for data analysis enables neuroscientists to meet the computational demands of modern experimental technologies. Thunder, via the underlying Spark engine, handles ...