Tag Archives: mapreduce

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

Posted in cloud computing, Hadoop and Mapreduce | Tagged , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Recommended Mapreduce Workshop

If you are interested in Hadoop or Mapreduce, I would like to recommend participating or submitting your paper to the First International Workshop on Theory and Practice of Mapreduce (MAPRED’2010) (held in correspondance with the 2nd IEEE International Conference on … Continue reading

Posted in cloud computing, Hadoop and Mapreduce | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Word Count with MapReduce on a GPU – A Python Example

Atbrox is startup company providing technology and services for Search and Mapreduce/Hadoop. Our background is from Google, IBM and research. GPU – Graphical Processing Unit like the NVIDIA Tesla – is fascinating hardware, in particular regarding extreme parallelism (hundreds of … Continue reading

Posted in Hadoop and Mapreduce | Tagged , , , , , | 9 Comments

Statistics about Hadoop and Mapreduce Algorithm Papers

Underneath are statistics about which 20 papers (of about 80 papers) were most read in our 3 previous postings about mapreduce and hadoop algorithms (the postings have been read approximately 5000 times). The list is ordered by decreasing reading frequency, … Continue reading

Posted in cloud computing | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Towards Cloud Supercomputing

Atbrox is startup company providing technology and services for Search and Mapreduce/Hadoop. Our background is from Google, IBM and research. Update 2010-Nov-15: Amazon cluster compute instances enters 231th place on top 500 supercomputing list. Update 2010-Jul-13: Can remove towards from … Continue reading

Posted in cloud computing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment