Comments on: Yahoo to Push Supercomputing http://insidehpc.com/2007/11/14/yahoo-to-push-supercomputing/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Deepak http://insidehpc.com/2007/11/14/yahoo-to-push-supercomputing/#comment-18383 Deepak Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:41:05 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2007/11/14/yahoo-to-push-supercomputing/#comment-18383 Hadoop is a lot more than a RAID. It is also being used by Google and IBM to teach courses on distributed computing. Hadoop is the open source version of Google's MapReduce method for large scale distributed computing, which amongst other things powers Google Maps. It's a beautiful concept, ultra scalable and does not require you to be a distributed programming guru, although there is a third component (the framework) which tends to be proprietary to the companies deploying MapReduce/Hadoop etc. Don't have access to lots of processors. Just get an EC2 account :) Hadoop is a lot more than a RAID. It is also being used by Google and IBM to teach courses on distributed computing. Hadoop is the open source version of Google’s MapReduce method for large scale distributed computing, which amongst other things powers Google Maps. It’s a beautiful concept, ultra scalable and does not require you to be a distributed programming guru, although there is a third component (the framework) which tends to be proprietary to the companies deploying MapReduce/Hadoop etc.

Don’t have access to lots of processors. Just get an EC2 account :)

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