Not sure if this is of interest, but if you have not nad a chance to see this, you may find it interesting:
RHIPE - R and Hadoop Integrated Processing Environment http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~sguha/rhipe/ "We describe a set of functions that allows the R user to take advantage of the Hadoop framework. Hadoop is an open source implementation of Google's map-reduce - a programming model for processing large data sets. Using Hadoop, the R user can run 'embarrassingly parallel' methods, manipulate very large data sets (in the order gigabytes even terabytes), and implement algorithms in R that can be translated in to the map-reduce model." And of course, R : http://www.r-project.org Yours faithfully, Tim
