In the TV series “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” the magnetic containment field prevents contact of antimatter with normal matter in a warp core. If the field were to collapse or fall below 15% of its maximum integrity, the starship would be destroyed. This containment field was a very important safety system for starships (reference Wikia). Read More
Here at Ancestry.com, we currently use Microsoft’s High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster to do a variety of things. My team has multiple things we use an HPC cluster for. Interestingly enough, we don’t communicate with HPC exactly the same for any distinct job type. We’re using the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model for two of Read More
Ancestry.com becomes more and more aware of the value of the data our website generates every single day. We have a lot of customers coming to the website to discover, preserve and share their family history. They come from different parts of the world and are looking for information that helps them tell the story Read More
Ancestry.com, like any other site with millions of subscribers, experiences predictable load patterns throughout the day. To maximize site performance and customer satisfaction, we make every effort to schedule maintenance during off-peak intervals. Content processing, especially our repository of hundreds of millions of images, on the other hand, is a constant ongoing effort, and in Read More
About 450 years ago John Heywood wrote, “many hands make light work.” The same can be said of image and data processing. Distributed parallel computing (DPC) makes it possible for us to do the work described by Michael Murdock in his series on the image processing pipeline. If you haven’t already, take a moment to Read More