IBM developed a super-fast mechanism for data analysis

On this week ended Supercomputing Conference 2010 in USA Corporation IBM presented details of a new architecture for data storage, designed for large archives and libraries.The new technology allows you to analyze terabytes of data and convert the necessary consistency and create accounts for them at least two times faster than previously existing technologies.

The new technology is very suitable for cloud environments and network-intensive workloads, such as networks, media companies, banks, working with terabytes of archives, government agencies, and financial analysis company.From IBM said that as a rule datasets with size of several terabytes being analyzed in several hours during the preparation of various analytical reports, and new technology makes it possible to reduce this time to several minutes.

IBM intends to use new technology and in future generations of their systems to support decision-making and drawing up reports for regulatory authorities.

The technology was created in the division of IBM Research company on the basis of cluster development General Parallel File System Shared Nothing Cluster (GPFS-SNS), before ipolzvana in applications of critical level of importance. The system relies on the analysis of clustered distributed file system, data processing in a special way.

As told by IBM, the technology for the analysis operate in such a way that each node of the system is completely self-sufficient and operates in such a way as not to await the results of calculations of the previous computer.For example, a financial institution that works with algorithms for risk analysis based on archive size, measuring up to petabytes data. Here billions of files are distributed in different parts of the network and the calculations require significant IT resources due to their complexity.Using GPFS-SNC may be using a single dynamic file system, operating in parallel in a cloud between different nodes.

Facebook holds a quarter of all Web page views in the U.S.

The monitoring company Hitwise reported that the popularity of social networking site, Facebook continues to grow.For example, by the end of last week on Facebook account 25% of all registered openings of websites made by members of the United States. A year earlier the figure for the same period was 16.7%.

Researchers say that for one year only traffic to Facebook increased by 60% and one in ten Internet users in the U.S. by browsing the network resources used on Facebook. In comparison, for Google this indicator is 7%.

Currently the number of visits to Facebook is almost four times larger than that of YouTube, which ranks second in the standings, and 5 times the number of visits to the rest of the projects at Google. According to data from Hitwise, Facebook has been a leader and more time spent on consumer sites.Throughout September, consumers spend on Facebook a total of approximately 41.1 million minutes, against 39.8 million minutes on Google. Speaking of Google, Hitwise notes that the main generator of traffic for popular search engine projects remain Gmail and YouTube.

The report by Hitwise says that Facebook began an increasing threat to Google, as Facebook Connect system and social plugins on Facebook are increasingly used and consumers are increasingly replaced by those previously used projects at Google.

With forecasts of the company, Facebook will become even greater threat to Google, when launching large-scale programs to advertisers and special offerings for SMBs.

Google: 2010 No Chrome OS computers!

Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed that because of delay due to technical problems with the operating system Chrome OS before the end of this year will be on sale any netbook or tablet based on this work.Previously, it was announced that the placing of devices with this operating system will be delayed by several months.

The company will keep putting a cloud operating system until at least early 2011. Schmidt said that Chrome OS is now “a few months of its launch.More accurate release date yet, has it gone, but until recently the company intended to launch Chrome OS this month. So the first laptops and tablets based on the Chrome OS can occur around the spring of 2011.

Furthermore, he assured that the Chrome OS can work not only on netbooks, but also on tablets and other portable devices.”The code of this system is open and therefore it will work on any device,” he said.

Speaking of differences between Chrome OS and Android, Schmidt said that the first is more “computer” functionality is also designed for devices with a keyboard, and Android is targeting mainly sensory smartphones.He admitted that the two systems are similar both in spirit and in technology. We recall that the initial basis for Chrome OS serve as Ubuntu Linux, although the process of development it was changed almost beyond recognition, which it is distanced from Ubuntu enough.

You will remember that Google originally published the source code of Chrome OS prior year, announced that the companies Acer, Asus, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Toshiba are interested in this development and said they plan to market notebooks Based on this system in November or December 2010.In September, Google announced that work on the system is on schedule, but now the company acknowledged that the system still lags behind it.

Internet giant did not announce the exact reasons for the delay, but it is believed that the delay is probably caused by the desire to strengthen the orientation of the Chrome OS tablets in order to better compete with Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab.