Re: Could we call hadoop a distributed OS?

[Amar Kamat]

HADOOP is not a distributed OS. It requires some OS on 
which it can be run. Also its not an application. Its a 
platform for running applications on the grid. There are certain class of 
applications (like the ones to do with web) that can make use of this 
platform (service) to run data intensive applications that have inherent 
parallelism, on the grid. According to me appropriate classification would 
be a distributed computing software.
Amar
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, 
Steve Han wrote:

Or it just a distributed application?How we can learn more about the design
ideas of Hadoop.Thanks