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Distributed Computing and MapReduce

Today I conducted a session on Distributed Computing. It mainly focussed on MapReduce and its open source implementation-Hadoop.
The session first covered a brief idea of why we need to have distributed computing since everything is driven by need.Then It covered how a distributed file system works.It focussed on the Google File System.A demonstartion of [...]

Round-up on the search engines and a troubleshooting linux sessions

A talk on search engines and a troubleshooting session were the reasons
for the gathering on the 25th and the 26th of February 2009.
The aim of the talk was to give a brief account on everything related
to search engine technology.It started with an introduction to search
engines and then went on to tell about the different types [...]