Cloudiquity

Sun (or is that Oracle…) has released a new version of their Grid Engine which brings it into the cloud. There are two main additions in this release. The First is is integration with Apache Hadoop in which Hadoop jobs can now be submitted to Grid Engine, as if they were any other computation job. The Grid Engine also [...]

Tags: Apache, Grid Computing, Grid Engine, Hadoop, Oracle, Sun

From the Amazon Web Services Blog:  Earlier this year I wrote about Amazon Elastic MapReduce and the ways in which it can be used to process large data sets on a cluster of processors. Since the announcement, our customers have wholeheartedly embraced the service and have been doing some very impressive work with it (more on this [...]

Tags: Amazon, AWS, Cloud Computing, Elastic Map Reduce, Hadoop, MapReduce, Web Services