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Doug Cutting, Yahoo!
Eric Baldeschwieler, Director of Engineering, Yahoo!
Track: Emerging Topics
Date: Wednesday, July 25
Time: 1:45pm
- 2:30pm
Location: D139-140
Hadoop is an open source framework for grid computing that implements a distributed filesystem and the MapReduce distributed computing metaphor. It can efficiently process terabytes of data using clusters containing thousands of machines. This talk will describe Hadoop and how to use it.