{"id":14272,"date":"2015-08-07T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T11:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/blu-acceleration\/"},"modified":"2015-08-07T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T11:36:45","slug":"blu-acceleration","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/31269\/blu-acceleration","title":{"rendered":"BLU Acceleration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_blu_acceleration_mean\">What Does BLU Acceleration Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p> BLU Acceleration is a term for a group of IBM technologies that apply to big data sets. These include in-memory processing, CPU management tools and triage tools for data sets.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_blu_acceleration\">Techopedia Explains BLU Acceleration<\/span><\/h2>\n<p> The name BLU comes from IBM&#8217;s Big Blue project. Elements of BLU Acceleration are put into various Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems. 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