Tag: Open Source

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: rOpenSci - open tools for open science. You can find members of the rOpenSci team at various meetings and workshops around the world. Come say ‘hi’, learn about how our software packages can enable your research, or about our process for open peer software review and onboarding, how you can get connected with the community or tell us how we can help you do open and reproducible research. Where’s rOpenSci? When Who Where What June 23, 2018 Maëlle Salmon Cardiff, UK satRday Cardiff June 27-28, 2018 Scott Chamberlain Portland, OR Bioinformatics Open Source Conference 2018 (BOSC) July ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; David Ducos | June 19, 2018 |  Posted In: InnoDB, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, open source databases, Percona Server for MySQL PREVIOUS POST Since MySQL 5.7.5, we have been able to resize dynamically the InnoDB Buffer Pool. This new feature also introduced a new variable — innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size — which defines the chunk size by which the buffer pool is enlarged or reduced. This variable is not dynamic and if it is incorrectly configured, could lead to undesired situations. Let’s see first how innodb_buffer_pool_size , innodb_buffer_pool_instances  and innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size interact: The buffer pool can hold several instances and each ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Brennan Saeta, TensorFlow Tech Lead for Cloud TPUs Deep neural networks have enabled breakthroughs across a variety of business and research challenges, including translating text between languages, transcribing speech, classifying image content, and mastering the game of Go. Because training and running deep learning models can be extremely computationally demanding, we rely on our custom-built Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to power several of our major products, including Translate, Photos, Search, Assistant, and Gmail.Cloud TPUs allow businesses everywhere to transform their own products and services with machine learning, and we’re working hard ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. Early last year we announced the Hortonworks Data Heroes initiative. It’s our way of recognizing the Data Visionaries, Data Scientists, Data Architects, HCC Community Champion, and Cognitive Honors awards to organizations transforming their businesses through Big Data. Hortonworks has over 1,300 total customers spanning every industry, each with a unique Big Data journey. Our Data Heroes program lets us highlight a few customers who are helping create radical change in their industries. WHO ARE THE DATA HEROES? A Data Visionary: who recognizes the potential of Big Data to transform their organization, and leads the business to turn that ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: HowToForge; Ghost is a completely open source (MIT license) blogging platform, that is gaining popularity among developers and ordinary users since its 2013 release. Ghost source code is publicly available on GitHub. Ghost generally takes around ~300MB of RAM to run well, so it can run on modest hardware. It puts focus on content and blogging. The most attractive thing about Ghost is its simple, clean, elegant and responsive design. You can write your blog posts from a mobile phone. Content for Ghost is written and formatted using the Markdown language. Ghost is a perfect fit for individuals or small groups of writers. Ghost also has built-in support ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Guest Author. By Rob Thomas, General Manager, IBM Analytics. This story first appeared on the IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub. Data is driving business. And as volumes climb with no end in sight, companies have a decision to make: harness and extract insight from that data, or watch your competitors do it as they pass you by. One of our tenets at IBM is to help our clients prepare, manage, and analyze their data – and then learn from it. Through data management, analytics and governance for both cloud and on premises environments, we’re ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Christine Alford. AionNode: Fully functional AionNode with running Kernel. AISE TensorFlow CPU Production: A fully integrated deep learning software stack with TensorFlow, an open-source software library for machine learning, and Python, a high-level programming language for general-purpose programming for running on CPU. Azure AD Connect Server 2016: Add your Active Directory details and begin syncing to Azure Active Directory. Azure AD Connect will integrate your on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory. Provide a common identity for your users for Office 365, Azure, and SaaS applications. cuberubuntu: cuberubuntu images. F5 BIG-IQ Virtual Edition: F5 BIG-IQ provides ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Peter Zaitsev | June 18, 2018 |  Posted In: High-availability, MySQL, open source databases, Technical Webinars PREVIOUS POST Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents MySQL: Scaling and High Availability – Production Experience Over the Last Decade(s) on Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Percona is known as the MySQL performance experts. With over 4,000 customers, we’ve studied, mastered and executed many different ways of scaling applications. Percona can help ensure your application is highly available. Come learn from our playbook, and leave this talk knowing ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mango Solutions. James Blair, RStudio Scalability is a hot word these days, and for good reason. As data continues to grow in volume and importance, the ability to reliably access and reason about that data increases in importance. Enterprises expect data analysis and reporting solutions that are robust and allow several hundred, even thousands, of concurrent users while offering up-to-date security options. Shiny is a highly flexible and widely used framework for creating web applications using R. It enables data scientists and analysts to create dynamic content that provides straightforward access to their work for those with ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Alicia Li. Household names such as Adobe, Jet, ASOS, Schneider Electric, and Milliman are amongst hundreds of enterprises that are powering their Big Data Analytics using Azure HDInsight. Azure HDInsight launched nearly six years ago and has since become the best place to run Apache Hadoop and Spark analytics on Azure. Here are the top eight reasons why enterprises are choosing Azure HDInsight for their big data applications: 1. Fully managed cluster service for Apache Hadoop and Spark workloads: Spin up Hive, Spark, LLAP, Kafka, HBase, Storm, or R Server clusters within minutes, deploy and ... Read More