Resource Reservation

Each IT infrastructure includes heterogeneous resources which serve different purposes. Some resources might be more suited for RAM consuming tasks, other might include a secured database, other offer low latency to the customer and other might have bigger bandwidth.

This article will take as an example the need to access a database or any specific resource for a given task. A selection script will ensure this task will be executed on the server hosting this resource but other requirements have to be considered.
What if there are other tasks waiting and yours has higher priority? What if your task requires the whole capacity of the machine?

Big Data, Languages and Software solutions

Inspired from an article from ThinkR

Big Data is a common term that everyone uses without really having a clear definition of what it is. It is used everywhere and in every industry from transportation, human resources, healthcare, etc. which makes it more difficult to specify. For this article, let’s agree that big data is when it is not possible to handle the information with a single computer even though these days, computers are available with 1Tb of ram. In some more and more common cases, all the data for a computation might not even be in one place which requires advanced distributed algorithms and software.

Big Data for Hadley Wickham

Hadley Wickam well known developer for the R language, who developed multiple librairies used in most projects, defined 3 main categories for Big Data:

ProActive Calendar Step-by-Step

Calendars offer a nice user friendly interface which allow to plan ahead, manipulate events, duplicate them and much more.

By extending traditional applications, more than just events can be handled.

Introducing our calendar service. With this, ProActive Workflows&Scheduling offers more flexibility and a way to automatically synchronize the scheduler with your favorite calendar manager (Google Calendar, Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc). This offer a new UI adapted for repetitive tasks, enabling more intuitive control through better visualization and simplified job handling (drag&drop). To use our calendar service, navigate to the scheduler, click on “calendar”, retrieve the url (generate it if needed) and use it to create a new calendar. It is possible to test this through our free online test platform.