Tencent Cloud Joins IBM And Mellanox To Break Data Sorting World Records
Tencent Cloud establishes four world records in winning the GraySort and MinuteSort categories at the renowned Sort Benchmark Contest.
Tencent, IBM, and Mellanox announced that Tencent Cloud has been named the Winner of the Sort Benchmark annual global computing competition for 2016. Tencent Cloud and the Big Data Collaboration team spent less than 99 seconds (98.8 seconds) finishing sorting 100 terabytes of data in the Indy GraySort category, improving on 2015's best result, 329 seconds, by a factor of 3.3.
Each year, top global companies and academic institutions participate in the contest to evaluate the capability of their software and hardware system architectures, as well as their research results. Tencent Cloud participated in two of the four competition categories, GraySort and MinuteSort, to benchmark the architecture capabilities and computing efficiencies of large distributed computing systems and real time data analytics. The GraySort and MinuteSort benchmarks are each measured in two sub categories: