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- MapReduce
- A programming model from Google for processing huge data sets on large clusters of servers. It includes distribution, parallelizing and fault tolerant functions. Google uses MapReduce to set...
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ZDNet Resources
- Google's parallel programming model
- Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on commodity-based clusters. The latest statistics included in the paper are from September 2007. They show that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Programming Model, Programming, MapReduce, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Google's secret of success? Dealing with failure
- Google's secret of success? Dealing with failureI wonder what they use for the desktopIs it linux or MS?Smart Idea!Develop and test on what the average person uses. What a concept!Downloadable links for GFS and Mapreduce papersThe USENIX links require a current USENIX account to download the actual paper, but...
- Tags: Mainframes, Linux, Desktops, Google Inc., MapReduce, mainframe, PC, Redundancy
- Discussion threads 2005-03-03
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- 52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O
- On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...
- Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Python Community, Steve, Programming Languages, Performance Management, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research efforts
- In what has become a not-so-secret secret, Microsoft and Intel are set to unveil on March 18 their joint funding of more parallel-processing research work, according to various industry reports. EETimes says the Wintel couple will announce it is helping fund the new Parallel Computing Lab at...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Intel Corp., EETimes, Microsoft Research Folk, Dryad, Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDB
- Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon's SimpleDBMap Reduce, massive paralllel?I understand I can store unlimited information, and use REST to store/retrieve that information. I suppose that the REST command will contain a SQL- or LINQ-like statement in one shape or another will be passed in the REST command.The key piece...
- Tags: Databases, Amazon SimpleDB, Microsoft Launches, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., database
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- H-Store: Complete destruction of the old DBMS order?
- Guest Post: Curt Monash reports from the front lines of a database revolution. Mike Stonebraker created much of the database management industry. Now he wants to blow it up. Via a project called H-Store [pdf file], he proposes to manage high-end OLTP databases entirely in...
- Tags: Disk, DBMS, Brown University, OLTP, RAM, H-Store, I-Store, H-Store Team, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Curt Monash
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Cloud computing - in your dreams
- Cloud computing - in your dreamsSomeone has some sanity left I seeThanks!RE: Cloud computing - in your dreamsI think the differentiators are virtualization and power consumption. It is virtualization that has turned academic exercises into real business prototypes. I may be wrong but I think the brick and mortar data...
- Tags: Data centers, Cloud Computing, cloud computing, computing
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- Google: Rewriting the book on data centers
- Om Malik had an interesting post about Google's super-sized datacenters. He posited that Google's massive infrastructure, customized for its processes, represents a the big barrier to entry for its rivals, and it will continue to give the company an edge as long as it keeps spending the billions on its...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Google and IBM help students learn parallel programming
- Google and IBM have announced a new initiative to help students and researchers learn how to create the massively parallel programs that will be needed to address large-scale problems of the future. The two companies are teaming up to provide hardware, software, developer tools, and services to support curricula created...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Plug-in, Programming, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Open Source, Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- MS-ManiC: Microsoft steps up its multicore work
- Microsoft officials have been talking up, as of late, the need for some fundamental changes in software design and development to accommodate the shift to many cores on client systems. There are several Microsoft Research projects focusing on various aspects of the many-core challenge. The newest and seemingly most far-reaching...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Memory System, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
- Can Yahoo use open source to close Google gap?
- Open source is always friend to the No. 2 player in a market and always the enemy of the top dog. That appears to be the big lesson after connecting a few dots on various items popping up around the Web. First David Carr at Baseline notes that Yahoo is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Yahoo! Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Google: 10 percent of sites are dangerous
- Google: 10 percent of sites are dangerousClarification... 10% of sites dangerous for Windows usersNTAre they dangerous through any browser or just specificcan they perform a cross platform intrusion, data mining, code insertion, or is it just a Windows thing. Are they compromised IIE sites or Apache? Are bad...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Web site development, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, Now IT, Google Inc., malware infection
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- MS-Google face-off: This time in distributed computing
- At this week’s open house for press and analysts, Microsoft Research MSR will be showing off a multitude of projects, including a so far little-publicized distributed-computing platform under development that is code-named “Dryad.” Dryad is one of a number of large-scale-computing efforts in which Microsoft researchers are engaged....
- Tags: Dryad team, Dryad, Dryad Web site
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
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