Bob La Quey wrote: > Intriguing link and friend's comment. >.. > <quote> > Everyday, I hear new stories about running Hadoop on EC2. For example, > The New York Times used 100 Amazon EC2 instances and a Hadoop > application to process 4TB of raw image TIFF data (stored in S3) into > 1.1 million finished PDFs in the space of 24 hours at a computation > cost of just $240. It not only makes massive distributed processing > easy but also makes it headache-free. > > Whether it is Startup companies or University Classrooms in UCSB, BYU, > Stanford or even enterprise companies, its just amazing to see every > new story that is utilizing Hadoop on Amazon EC2/S3 in innovative > ways. > </quote>
OK, the above quote is evidently from: http://blog.awswebshop.com/2008/02/27/taking-massive-distributed-computing-to-the-common-man-hadoop-on-amazon-ec2s3/ I also see: http://hadoop.apache.org/core/ It does look interesting. Has anyone here looked it over enough to summarize what it is/does and maybe what the limits might be? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
