Category Archives: cloud computing

Mapreduce & Hadoop Algorithms in Academic Papers (4th update – May 2011)

Follow @atbrox It’s been a year since I updated the mapreduce algorithms posting last time, and it has been truly an excellent year for mapreduce and hadoop – the number of commercial vendors supporting it has multiplied, e.g. with 5 … Continue reading

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Atbrox spin off launches new media search engine

Our spin off startup company – Gravemaskinen AS – just launched a new media search engine in cooperation with Journalisten.no (magazine for Norwegian media professionals). Some of the features include: faceted’ish suggest search realtime aggregation of search results for statistics … Continue reading

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An example of using F# and C# (.net/mono) with Amazon’s Elastic Mapreduce (Hadoop)

This posting gives an an example how F# and C# can scale potentially to up to thousands of machines with Mapreduce in order to efficiently process TeraByte (TB) and PetaByte (PB) data amounts. It shows a C# (c sharp) mapper … Continue reading

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2nd International Workshop on Mapreduce and its applications

If you are interested in Mapreduce (/Hadoop), I would like to recommend participating or submitting your paper to the 2nd International Workshop on Mapreduce and its applications (MAPREDUCE’11). The mapreduce workshop is held in correspondance with the The 20th International … Continue reading

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Programmatic Deployment to Elastic Mapreduce with Boto and Bootstrap Action

A while back I wrote about How to combine Elastic Mapreduce/Hadoop with other Amazon Web Services. This posting is a small update to that, showing how to deploy extra packages with Boto for Python. Note that Boto can deploy mappers … Continue reading

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