18 Dec
2007
18 Dec
'07
11:36 p.m.
We need to start looking at this MapReduce/Hadoop programming model from Google/Yahoo. It is getting big and Google, Yahoo, IBM are investing big money in it and in educating students about it. Google and Yahoo are two new sponsors of HiPC this year. Google has sent 12 people (from 0 in previous years). The head of Yahoo Research is here. In reference to Microsoft's investment of $500 million in data centers in Chicago and Ireland, he said "we measure data centers in watts not dollars." I heard DARPA is starting a new program on software/programming models for multicore. There was a meeting about it in San Mateo on Dec 6. Rajeev http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/