As the growth of the cloud pushes down the cost of massive computing systems, both researchers and enterprises will find old problems with new solutions using cloud computing.

Cloud Data Processing: The utilisation of cloud computing platforms to store, process, and analyse large volumes of data efficiently and on a scalable basis.

Personal distributed computing Setting up an Amazon Elastic MapReduce job flow is remarkably easy. New users should run one of the supplied example applications to familiarize themselves with the ...

Platform Computing, a provider of cluster, grid and cloud management software, has announced support for the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model.

Platform Computing, a provider of cluster, grid and cloud management software, has announced support for the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model to bring enterprise-class distributed computing ...

MapReduce, Google’s framework for scaling large amounts of data across computers, has been ported to Windows Azure by Microsoft. Code-named “ Daytona,” the code was made available under a ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 123, No. 901 (March 2011), pp. 366-380 (15 pages) ABSTRACT. In the coming decade, astronomical surveys of the sky will generate tens of ...

Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, today announced the company is now bringing enterprise-class distributed computing to business analytics applications ...