[Beowulf] Slide on big data

Douglas Eadline deadline at eadline.org
Wed Feb 19 12:19:35 PST 2014


>
> On 02/19/2014 09:14 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
>> Right now Big Data is more like other fuzzy marketing
>> words i.e. Cloud, Grid, etc.
>>
>> And, Big is a relative term. There are several
>> aspects of "Big Data" that I have noticed:
>> (Often summarized by the three V's of Big Data
>> Volume, Variety and Velocity)
>>
>> - often an un-structured collection of data not
>>    easily processed using relational tools
>> - often unused organization data collected over time
>>    or a recent upswing in transaction-type data from the web
>>    or other sources, sensors, simulations, experiemnets
>> - strains existing infrastructure (which varies by organization)
>> - rapid analysis (real-time ) of data is desired
>> - Big in size, but not that big i.e.
>>
>> Two analytics clusters at Yahoo and Microsoft,
>> median job input sizes are under 14GB and 90%
>> of jobs on a Facebook cluster have input sizes
>> under 100 GB. (“Nobody ever got fired for using
>> Hadoop on a cluster,” HotCDP2012)
>>
>> "Big Data's sweet spot starts at 110GB and the discovery
>> that the most common amount of data the average company has under
>> management is between 10 to 30TB"
>> (http://www.sisense.com/blog/bruno/2013/01/13/big-data-surprises)
>>
>>
>> And, yes I have been swimming in the "Big Data" pool recently.
>
> Have you been drinking Kool-Aid made with water from that pool? ;)

Had a few cups while working on the Hadoop YARN book.
I still prefer HPC beer though.

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Doug


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>> --
>> Doug
>>
>>> Pardon me, what exactly IS Big Data :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Prentice Bisbal <
>>> prentice.bisbal at rutgers.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So I stumbled upon this on reddit yesterday. It would be funny if it
>>>> wasn't so true:
>>>>
>>>> http://i.imgur.com/n4BvQMi.jpg
>>>>
>>>> For those of you who don't want to click the link, the slide says the
>>>> following:
>>>>
>>>> Big Data: What is it?
>>>>
>>>> Big Data is like teenage sex:
>>>> - Everyone talks about it
>>>> - Nobody really knows how to do it
>>>> - Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it
>>>> - So, everyone claims they are doing it
>>>>
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>>>> Prentice
>>>>
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