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Skylake-based servers set multiple records in STAC-M3 Shasta benchmarks
32.7x the throughput of a larger Hadoop streaming cluster.
Spark throughput was highest when managed by IBM Spectrum Conductor with Spark.
Highest throughput to date for a system with a single CPU, GPU, or other co-processor
Solution breaks more than half the records in both baseline and scale benchmarks
Unaudited benchmark results for a combined compute/storage architecture
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Spring 2017 STAC Summits
Another successful round of STAC Summits has concluded. These events in three cities focused on Deep Learning; time sync for regulations and for measuring ultra-low latency environments; architectures for strategy backtesting; realities of containers and cloud with high-performance workloads; speeding up risk simulations and making them less expensive; leveraging innovations to overcome I/O bottlenecks; low-latency FPGA solutions; and much more.
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Focusing RTS 25 compliance exclusively on clock sync is like preparing your child for an entrance exam by simply ensuring she has sharp pencils. Necessary? Yes. Sufficient? Hardly.
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