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atbr – large-scale in-memory hashtables (in Python)

Large-scale in-memory key-value stores are universally useful (e.g. to load and serve tsv-data created by hadoop/mapreduce jobs), in-memory key-value stores have low latency, and modern boxes have lots of memory (e.g. EC2 intances with 70GB RAM). If you look closely … Continue reading

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Towards Cloud Supercomputing

Atbrox is startup company providing technology and services for Search and Mapreduce/Hadoop. Our background is from Google, IBM and research. Update 2010-Nov-15: Amazon cluster compute instances enters 231th place on top 500 supercomputing list. Update 2010-Jul-13: Can remove towards from … Continue reading

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