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1. Welcome to Hadoop!

   Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data. Here's what makes Hadoop especially useful:
   
   Scalable: Hadoop can reliably store and process petabytes.
   Economical: It distributes the data and processing across clusters of commonly available computers. These clusters can number into the thousands of nodes.
   Efficient: By distributing the data, Hadoop can process it in parallel on the nodes where the data is located. This makes it extremely rapid.
   Reliable: Hadoop automatically maintains multiple copies of data and automatically redeploys computing tasks based on failures.
   
   

   http://hadoop.apache.org/core/

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2. scalr - Google Code

   Scalr is a redundant, self-curing and auto-scaling hosting envrironment built on EC2
   
   

   http://code.google.com/p/scalr/

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3. Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service

   Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with ...
   
   

   http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/04/source-google-to-launch-bigtable-as-web-service/

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4. IBM Roadrunner Smashes the Petaflop Barrier

   Roadrunner, named after the New Mexico state bird, cost about $100 million, and was a three-phase project to deliver the world’s first “hybrid” supercomputer – one powerful enough to operate at one petaflop (one thousand trillion calculations per second).
   
   

   http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24405.wss

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