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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Hadoop has been widely embraced for its ability to economically store and analyze large data sets. Using parallel computing techniques like MapReduce, Hadoop can reduce long computation times to hours ...

What's been lacking is a service that offers a generic Hadoop and Spark environment on the one hand, and a job-oriented pricing model and user interface on the other. But this morning, at its Strata ...

An open source tool released last by LinkedIn developers is intended to help Hadoop and Spark users analyze, tune and improve the performance of their workflows. The self-service performance-tuning ...

I gave an introductory talk on Hadoop yesterday at the Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas. During the talk, I discussed how Hadoop Streaming, a utility which allows arbitrary executables to ...