The last few weeks I have been looking at the map-reduce area; specifically Hadoop and IBM’s BigInsight. This led to questioning how the data-parallel activities could be sped up. Found a reference to the usage of GPU for such data parallel tasks. A quick yahoo search kicked off the following site navigation: Mars: A MapReduce… [Read more…]
March 4, 2011
Sometime ago, my team decided to build a WebSphere sMash based data integration application – and as part of that we decided to enhance the existing data-mapper user interface that exists in sMash. Basically, the idea was to provide a mapper UI, which displays the input and output data structures, and allows the user to… [Read more…]
September 1, 2010
A bunch of things that I have been noticing about IBM for sometime now, but haven’t gotten around to actually writing it down. The Smarter planet page – I really like the icons that represent the IBM Smarter Planet, and also the way the typography is laid out. Very nice. One of the things that… [Read more…]
July 4, 2010
I stay in an apartment complex, situated in Cox town area of Bangalore. Over the past couple of weeks I have been hearing a screeching sound – that of a bird – and I was under the impression that it could be the sound made by nesting Kites. Last evening, the screeching started again, once… [Read more…]
July 1, 2010
I was playing around a bit with Tally ERP software. I like it for its simplicity. This is from the perspective of a software developer who wants to integrate with Tally, and not as a user of Tally. I am not competent to talk about that. My intention was to understand what it takes to… [Read more…]
June 8, 2010
Mallik, friend and intrepid traveler, on his return from his hometown decided to bestow unadulterated happiness among some of his acquaintances - he presented some of us the choicest mangoes from Ratnagiri. The Ratnagiri Alphonso overwhelms the senses, in the most pleasurable way. The fruity light scent, the golden hue of its skin, and the… [Read more…]
October 8, 2009
This is a follow-up to the blog entry announcing the book that my cousin had translated. I finally got down to reading it, and must say I liked the book, its content, and the notes added by the translator – Murali (yes, my cousin). The book is available for purchase on Amazon - “Govind Narayan’s… [Read more…]
April 3, 2009
I have been looking at Redis the past week, and realized that a Java client for Redis would help my cause… so quickly wrote one up. Its available here: redis-java-client-rename-to-zip (please note, I saved it as .ppt to get it to upload to wordpress. Its actually a .zip file, just rename the extension to .zip… [Read more…]
December 1, 2008
Helping out Chandra to migrate from his current Windows based laptop to an Ubuntu based one. The main things we attempted to do: Upgrade the current laptop Current R40e felt sluggish, and some trouble-shooting determined that the Harddrive was the cause. Changed the HDD to a spanking new 160GB IDE one.Current config is 256MB RAM.… [Read more…]
November 18, 2008
Had a conversation today with a faculty member from a local college, and she wanted to talk to someone from IBM on an area that she intends to focus on as part her course (not the one she teaches, but the one she is enrolled into). Basically she felt she needed to work on some… [Read more…]
November 4, 2011
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