Workshop Data Science 19-20 October 2017

Dear DAPLAB’ers, there are still some places available for the workshop on data science co-organized by eXascale Infolab (UNIFR) and iCoSys (HEIA-FR). When: afternoons of 19 and 20th of October 2017 Where: UNIFR / HEIA-FR What (in french): Ce workshop organisé par IT-Valley s’adresse à tout informaticien désirant découvrir l’univers du Big Data et de la […]

DAPLAB updated to HDP 2.6.1

Dear users and friends, Thanks to a great team effort, the DAPLAB stack has been updated to the latest version. We are now running HDP 2.6.1 ! The following technologies have also been upgraded in the process: HDP 2.6.1 Ambari 2.5.2 Spark 1.6.2 Spark2 2.1.1 Kafka 0.10.1 Cassandra 3.11 Flink 1.4 We hope you will […]

Google #HashCode 2017 — Hub @HEIA-FR

We’re pretty delighted to announce that DAPLAB in collaboration with iCoSys and GDG Fribourg will again this year host an official Hub for the next Google #HashCode, Thursday Feb 23. Since Thursdays is our hacky day, let’s code something different (or not, we’ll see :)). When Thursday, February 23. Doors open around 5:30pm, and will close around […]

Hacky Thursdays — Back to school Fall 2016

Summer is flying. It’s almost dark again outside when it’s Hacky Thursday’s time 🙂 After this rather long long summer break, it’s time to go back to school. The announcements of the summer was legions, and many, many, many new projects have been given to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). I did challenge anyone of you […]

New infrastructure

We are glad to announce the update of our infrastructure. We added a whole new bunch of machines, enhancing the HADOOP cluster performances of the DAPLAB.   what old new total CPU cores 372 128 500 cores RAM 978 GB 1024 GB  2002 GB Storage 323 TB  192 TB  515 TB   In total, 8 machines with Intel […]

Voldemort Knowledge Graph

VoldemortKG is an exciting project which explores the extent to which entities represented in different ways repeat on the Web, how they are related, and how they complement (or link) to each other. It has released a paper as well as made available its first results on this website. DAPLAB has made available the resources needed to create the […]