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Sun (or is that Oracle…) has released a new version of their Grid Engine which brings it into the cloud.
There are two main additions in this release. The First is is integration with Apache Hadoop in which Hadoop jobs can now be submitted to Grid Engine, as if they were any other computation [...]

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The definative guide is for programmers and administrators demonstrating how Hadoop allows you to analyze large data sets, build reliable, scalable, distributed systems, and learn how to setup Hadoop clusters. In this book White includes case studies and problems with illustrations of specific solutions in Haoop which is always welcome.

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Interesting video talk below on Long Haul Interface to Hadoop

Long Haul Hadoop
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Apache Hadoop is a (free) software framework that supports data intensive distributed applications. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and huge amounts of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google’s MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers. Hadoop was originally a sub-project of Lucene before it became a Top Level Project at Apache. [...]

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Scale Unlimited are offering Boot Camps on Hadoop. Given the increasing use of Hadoop on Amazon EC2 this could be a useful course for those looking to process vast amounts of data. Scale also detail how the community have been using Hadoop. They also provide a Hadoop live CD which provides new Hadoop users with [...]

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