Cloud@SG Summit

The "Hadoop for Users Training" will be conducted by Yahoo! instructors and is co-organised by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and Yahoo! as part of the Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Testbed initiative.

About Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Testbed
In July 2008, IDA became a Centre of Excellence for Cloud Computing, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo!, Intel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), where it will create opportunities for research and development in cloud computing, enhance local capabilities and enable users gain easy access to this next generation service.

About Hadoop
Hadoop is a framework for running applications on large clusters built of commodity hardware. The framework transparently provides applications both reliability and data motion. Hadoop implements a computational paradigm named Map/Reduce, where the application is divided into many small fragments of work, each of which may be executed or re-executed on any node in the cluster. In addition, it provides a distributed file system that stores data on the compute nodes, providing very high aggregate bandwidth across the cluster. Both Map/Reduce and the distributed file system are designed so that node failures are automatically handled by the framework.

Applications of Hadoop can be found in Internet scale data intensive applications, such as distributed grep, distributed sort, web link-graph reversal, term-vector per host, web access log stats analysis, inverted index construction, document clustering, machine learning, machine translation, and natural language processing. Users of Hadoop include Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, Facebook, NYTimes, and ChinaMobile.

Registration Fee
The above training is provided free-of-charge. Please register your interest to attend via the online GridAsia 2009 registration.

* Attendees are required to bring their own laptop for the hands-on session