San Francisco Chronicle - Here are five Bay Area startups worth watching this week.

Crunchbase - What does taking investment dollars from In-Q-Tel mean for a company? And how much influence does the organization have in its portfolio companies?

Nvidia - MVisualization is a great tool for understanding large amounts of data, but transferring the data from an HPC system or from the cloud to a local workstation for analysis can be a painful experience.

EnterpriseTech - The partners announced an agreement this week intended to improve compatibility between Huawei's latest FusionServer and MapD database and visualization platforms.

Technuter - The partnership will enhance compatibility and interconnection between Huawei’s FusionServer hardware and the MapD analytics platform, enabling organizations to search and visualize multiple billions of rows of data sets in milliseconds.

Datanami - MapD Technologies, the database and visualization specialist, said its is working with university researchers on leveraging graphics processors to advanced geospatial analytics

TeleAnalysis - Partnership with MapD will enable Huawei customers to query and visualize hundreds of billions of records in milliseconds.

Datanami - High-flying analytics software vendor MapD Technologies is partnering with Canadian mobile data vendor Tutela Technologies on an analytics platform that provides real-time metrics on mobile network performance and device usage.

Inside Analysis - Draw a Venn diagram of Analytics, Big Data and Cloud, and what’s in the middle? Success!

Inside HPC - Analyzing big data with GPUs is nothing new. GPUs have been the “sweet spot for Big Data” for several years. What is relatively new is GPU cloud computing.