Pek, also check out these references, you may find some overlap with your thesis topic http://ianvarley.com/UT/MR/Varley_MastersReport_Full_2009-08-07.pdf http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/book.html
btw, if you are looking for an exciting research topic applying Hadoop in biomed world pls drop me a line Cheers Alex <http://ianvarley.com/UT/MR/Varley_MastersReport_Full_2009-08-07.pdf> ak2...@columbia.edu On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Allen Wittenauer <awittena...@linkedin.com>wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Pek Daniel wrote: > > As far as i know Google's solution for storing static configuration is > > Chubby. Hadoop currently suggests manage-scripts for keeping in sync > > the xml-files on the nodes' local fs. I think, it would be a great > > summer project to make hadoop services able to store their > > configuration on ZooKeeper. When a config-file changes, services could > > be announced runtime, and do the appropriate thing based on the > > change. > > What do you think of this idea? > > See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5670 . > > >