When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Data is the new currency of the modern world. Businesses that successfully maximize its value will have a decisive impact on their own value and on their customers’ success. As the de-facto platform ...

Yahoo researchers create the longest pi yet -- and hint at the cloud's potential for highly intense and complex computation Last week, a team of Yahoo researchers creating a long version of pi set a ...

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Code submitted this week for inclusion in the Hadoop stack will help speed the spread of the distributed big-data platform, according to Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy. The submission of the ...