How about combine the decentralized strategy to improve HDFS? Something like o(N) DHT architecture used by the Amazon s3 Of course, using decentralized method to change hadoop will cause huge work, but it is a good direction if as a research topic I think...
Best wishes Daming -----Original Message----- From: Jaideep Dhok [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 1:42 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hadoop research Hello, I am a graduate research student in CS at the Search and Information Extraction Lab, in IIIT Hyderabad, India (http://search.iiit.ac.in). I have been working on Nutch and Hadoop for the past couple of months, basically to get an understanding of the platform, and to discover possible research areas for my thesis work. Most of the time I have been playing with the Hadoop code base, and by now I am pretty much familiar with the internals (especially the Map-Reduce part). I have been reading publications related to Map-Reduce and the Google file system etc, and I am still looking for interesing research topics. I was wondering if anyone would like to share/suggest any ideas related to the Hadoop plaform. Any suggestions and comments are greatly appreciated. Thanks and Regards, Jaideep Dhok,
