Web search pioneer Yahoo officially released its source code for Hadoop, a parallel programming framework many see as the key ingredient for cloud computing services. The software could fuel a broad class of future Web-based applications, said an IBM executive at the second-annual Hadoop Summit.
Hadoop is an open source version of MapReduce, the set of proprietary algorithms Google uses to run data-intensive applications such as Web search across large clusters of PC-based servers. Yahoo is a key a contributor to the open source project that attracted a packed house of more than 700 developers to the event here.
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