Tag: compute storage separation

Alluxio (formerly Tachyon): An Open Source Memory Speed Virtual Distributed Storage

Southern California Data Science Conference 2016 – In the past year, the Alluxio project experienced a tremendous improvement in performance and scalability and was extended with key new features including tiered storage, transparent naming, and unified namespace. At the same time, the Alluxio ecosystem has expanded to include support for more under storage systems and computation frameworks.

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Accelerating On-Demand Data Analytics with Alluxio

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This is an excerpt from the Accelerating On-Demand Data Analytics with Alluxio whitepaper, which includes a detailed implementation guide in addition to this high level overview.
In the Big Data world, it is often the case that only a subset of the total data is relevant for answering the question at hand. As a result, the total cost of ownership for long running clusters for analytics is high while utilization is low, especially when adopting an architecture of co-locating compute and storage.

Alluxio Bay Area Joint Meetup at Intel 2016

by Ziya Ma [Intel], Calvin Jia, Jiri Simsa, Haoyuan Li, & Gene Pang

As the first meetup after the rebranding from Tachyon to Alluxio, we will first present exciting updates and new developments of the community. Followed by many new features and improvements in Alluxio 1.0 and 1.1 releases.

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A Virtual Distributed Storage System

DataDriven NYC 2016 – In the past year, the Alluxio project experienced a tremendous improvement in performance and scalability and was extended with key new features including tiered storage, transparent naming, and unified namespace. At the same time, the Alluxio ecosystem has expanded to include support for more under storage systems and computation frameworks.

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