Do you have an idea for a business, social enterprise, app, or creative project? You may want to participate in a unique extracurricular activity: the Spark program. Every year, the Brandeis ...

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coherent today announced that it is launching Coherent Spark, an application that will turn an entire Microsoft Excel spreadsheet into a simple, reusable function, ...

Spark offers aspiring change-makers at Brandeis the support they need to turn their vision into reality. Through Spark, Brandeis innovators will work on exploring the viability of their research and ...

SPARK Microsystems, a Canadian fabless semiconductor company specializing in next-generation ultra-wideband (UWB), today announced the availability of its Software Development Kit 1.0 (SDK) for its ...

If there is a “bottom line” to measuring the effectiveness of your big-data applications, it’s arguably performance, or how quickly those apps can finish the jobs they run. Let’s consider Spark. Spark ...

The availability of Apache Spark 1.6 was announced today. The Spark 1.6 release continues the major theme of making Spark easier to use for data applications, said Reynold Xin, co-founder at ...

Building the perfect data application is tricky business. Long hours are spent figuring out what data to use, wrangling and aggregating, writing code — and then new, perhaps contradictory, data ...

Apache Spark brings high-speed, in-memory analytics to Hadoop clusters, crunching large-scale data sets in minutes instead of hours Apache Spark got its start in 2009 at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab as a way ...

This report focuses on how to tune a Spark application to run on a cluster of instances. We define the concepts for the cluster/Spark parameters, and explain how to configure them given a specific set ...