A posting on Google’s official blog details the company’s efforts in reducing the time spent searching for information. By using a grid of 4,000 computers and its MapReduce software, the company was able to sort one petabyte of data (stored as 10 trillion 100-byte records) in just six hours and two minutes. An open source project, known as Hadoop, was inspired by MapReduce and is now supported by startup Cloudera.

Platform Computing and Dell have teamed to release Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) – Dell Edition, a HPC software stack optimised to run on Dell hardware. The two companies will jointly market a pre-configured, open source, Dell supported “out-of-the-box” software solution that is designs to be fast and easy to deploy, run and manage.

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