Yahoo! and CMU Join Forces
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about “next-generation computing” — computing structures, algorithms, and applications on very large-scale distributed computing platforms, to enable scientific discovery. The amount of activity in this area just keeps growing. This has been particularly intensive lately with Yahoo Research. Randy Bryant pointed out to me, for example, that the Yahoo Research home page features our partnership prominently, and that Yahoo is now getting organized to expand the program.
Here on campus, we have a full day, today, of seminars and tutorials by Yahoo Research personnel on the M45 super-cluster and the Hadoop-based programming environment. This will be tremendously useful to the many researchers here who are anxious to get their hands on the M45. And, it’s particularly great to see our alumni, like Andrew Tomkins, doing so well at Yahoo! and back now to tell us about their work.
Our department is well along the way to a dramatic expansion of its computing and data handling capabilities, in support of basic research. By doing this, we not only make our work better, but we contribute new ways of doing research to the entire academic community.
Peter Lee @ December 12, 2007
[…] workshop, an invitation-only event with about 100 researchers expected to attend. Starting with our partnership with Yahoo!, which led to our use of the M45 cluster, we have been very supportive of the planning for this Summit. Hadoop and, more generally, […]