Another look at Hadoop
Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Feb 14th, 2009
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. [...]
