I.B.M. to Push ‘Cloud Computing,’ Using Data From Afar – New York Times

The software that I.B.M. is packaging in its cloud offering is called Hadoop, running on the Linux operating system. Hadoop is based on an open-source search project called Nutch, and an open-source version of Google’s MapReduce software for spreading complex computer tasks across clusters of machines.

This is cool, but the Times has a few things missing from this article:

1. Apache Hadoop is an open source project of the Apache Software Foundation not a I.B.M. project as is somewhat implied here.
2. It is not based on Nutch.  Hadoop was extracted out of Apache Nutch, so it is probably more appropriate to say Nutch is based on Hadoop.  Of course this is a minor nit, since Hadoop started out inside of Nutch.
3. It runs on other things than Linux (like Macs and even Windows.)

At any rate, Apache Hadoop is a great project for doing distributed computing.  I understand some universities are even using it for teaching distributed computing.

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