Hadoop has been known as MapReduce running on HDFS, but with YARN, Hadoop 2.0 broadens pool of potential applications Hadoop has always been a catch-all for disparate open source initiatives that ...

In this video from the PBS User Group 2013, Jeffrey Denton from Clemson University presents: Using PBS and myHadoop to Schedule Hadoop MapReduce Jobs Accessing a Persistent OrangeFS Installation.

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Scheduling means different things depending on the audience. To many in the business world, scheduling is synonymous with workflow management. Workflow management is the coordinated execution of a ...

Karmasphere Studio Community Edition is a graphical environment to develop, debug, deploy and visualize MapReduce jobs. It accelerates the development process for experienced Hadoop developers and ...

When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Data is the new currency of the modern world. Businesses that successfully maximize its value will have a decisive impact on their own value and on their customers’ success. As the de-facto platform ...

Arun C. Murthy awoke to a phone call. It was 3 a.m., and an ad-targeting application at Yahoo, where he was an engineer, was running at painfully slow speeds. The culprit: a piece of software code ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

Facebook has shared some more behind-the-scenes information about just how the social network is built, this time centered around the enormous amount of data that it collects. Over half a petabyte of ...