Author Archives: Amund Tveit

Predicting Startup Performance with Syllables

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Amund Tveit

1. How to name your startup? It seems to me that few syllables (typically 2) are usually much better performing names (with several exceptions though) than others. My personal theory is that it is about rhythm and pronunciation energy. 2. … Continue reading →

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Recommended Mapreduce Workshop

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Amund Tveit

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 →

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Word Count with MapReduce on a GPU – A Python Example

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Amund Tveit

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 →

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Statistics about Hadoop and Mapreduce Algorithm Papers

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Amund Tveit

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 →

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Towards Cloud Supercomputing

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Amund Tveit

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 →

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