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AMD, Colfax Gain Cloudera Certification

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Colfax’s AMD-based server cluster is now Cloudera certified.  The cluster consists of six Colfax 2U CX2270-N4 servers – each with two AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors – running Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop. The cluster contains 192 cores.

The Colfax cluster and its high core density is designed for customers who are using Hadoop for fast, reliable analysis of both structured and unstructured data, offering the scale-out capabilities required for effectively handling large amounts of data.

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