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Hadoop-Based MapReduce on Amazon EC2

By laran | Published: 2009/04/07

Amazon recently announced the availability of Hadoop based MapReduce capabilities on their EC2 compute cloud. This is amazing.

A fair amount of the work I did in the Cornell Web Lab was exactly in this vein. We had to muck around with all sorts of issues at the time however related to getting MapReduce up and running on the compute cluster we had at the time via the Cornell Theory Center. I have no doubt that research groups and commercial organization requiring a powerful and flexible computation engine will jump on this offering.

Related links

  • The original MapReduce research paper
  • The HadoopMapReduce page on the Apache Wiki
  • a critique of MapReduce (for a little contrast of perspective)
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