Threat Intelligence – Fool’s Errand or Holy Grail?
In recent years, we’ve seen a disturbing trend in computer network defense — attackers are innovating at a much faster pace than defenders can keep up with. We’ve seen malware evolve from primitive...
View ArticleBig Data Advantage, part 1: “It’s down there somewhere. Let me take another...
Probably like many of you, the Cray team likes to debate and muse about industry trends when we meet over lunch or drinks. I enjoy our banter – it’s part of what makes it so much fun to work at Cray....
View ArticleCray recognized by Forrester and Gartner
Cray is fortunate to have earned the recognition and loyalty of customers worldwide. We’re also honored to receive industry recognition, as is the case with two recent reports from industry analyst...
View ArticleCray and Forrester Research on Agile Analytics Platform
A few weeks ago, we hosted a webinar on “The Need for an Agile Analytics Platform” with Cray’s SVP of Products, Ryan Waite, and featuring guest Mike Gualtieri, principal research analyst at Forrester...
View ArticleBig Data Advantage, part 2: “This is a very complicated case . . . You know,...
In my last post on big data advantages, I wrote about the potential impact of big data and the types of things companies are looking to get out of their information. However, only four percent of...
View ArticleMaking Sense of 50 Billion Triples: No Free Lunch
A lot of grandiose claims have been made promising that graph databases would allow easy ingest of all manner of disparate data and make sense of it – and uncover hidden relationships and meaning....
View ArticleBig Data Advantage, part 3: “The Dude Abides.”
In my prior two posts about analytics, I highlighted the vast opportunity available in big data and the obstacles that prevent organizations from attaining tangible benefits: Complexity across fronts...
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Making Sense of 50 Billion Triples: Getting Started
In my last post I outlined some of the reasons why the promise of graph analytics takes thought and planning to really capitalize on its potential. Now, I’d like to focus on getting started,...
View ArticleHow CGE Achieves High Performance and Scalability
In our graph series so far, we have explored what graph databases are and when they are valuable to use, as well as the Cray Graph Engine (“CGE”), a robust graph solution. For this last installment, we...
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50 Billion Triples: Digging a Bit Deeper
In the last two installments of this series (part 1 and part 2), we discussed some higher-level thoughts on striking a balance between easy ingest and more prep work as well as some initial queries to...
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“LEBM”: Cray Creating New Extension to LUBM Benchmark
I’ve written a few posts about the Cray Graph Engine (CGE), a robust, scalable graph database solution. CGE is a graph database that uses Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples to represent the...
View ArticleCray “Blue Waters” Supercomputer Tackles Gerrymandering
Redistricting — the process by which congressional and state legislative district boundaries are drawn — sounds like an unremarkable government chore. And, in theory, it should be. But, too often, it...
View Article2017 Spark Summit East Reveals Progress but Not Disruption
This was a conference to marvel at — and not just for the lineup. How many gigs start with a New England Patriots Super Bowl victory parade and end with a quasi-blizzard? Boston’s “ambiance” aside,...
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ExxonMobil Sets Record with Cray Supercomputer
ExxonMobil, working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), has achieved a major breakthrough with proprietary software using more than four times the previous number of...
View ArticleBig Data Analytics: How Much Will it Cost?
If you’re concerned about how long will it take before you see ROI from an investment in big data analytics technology, you’re not alone. According to research by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), 77...
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Cray CEO to Speak on the Convergence of Big Data and Supercomputing at...
Cray president and CEO Peter Ungaro will give a presentation on “The Convergence of Big Data and Supercomputing” at TechIgnite, an IEEE Computer Society conference exploring the trends, threats and...
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Cray Analytics and Alluxio – Wrangling Enterprise Storage
For business to not just survive — but to flourish — it’s become imperative to make decisions with near immediacy, continuously pivot strategy and tactics, and merge streams of inquiries into...
View ArticleMarkley and Cray Offer Supercomputing as a Service
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. and Markley, a premier provider of datacenter space and cloud computing services, today announced a partnership to provide supercomputing-as-a-service solutions...
View ArticleCray CEO Discusses New Supercomputing as a Service
Cray’s president and chief executive officer, Peter Ungaro, offers insights into the company’s new supercomputing-as-a-service offering, in partnership with Markley. The first industry offering is the...
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Hail Powers Precision Medicine on the Urika-GX Platform
Hail is an open-source platform for analyzing variants in genomic data on top of Apache Spark™. It takes advantage of three key elements of Spark’s design: Scalability. Datasets are multi-terabyte and...
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