Category Archives: Tools

MapReduce and Scale

By Siddhartha Reddy | February 5, 2008

Lately, I have become extremely interested in MapReduce, specifically the open source implementation of this in Hadoop.
From Wikipedia (MapReduce):
MapReduce is a software framework implemented by Google to support parallel computations over large (greater than 100 terabyte) data sets on unreliable clusters of computers. This framework is largely taken from map and reduce functions commonly used [...]

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Tools/Libraries for IR

By Siddhartha Reddy | April 24, 2007

We’ve created a page to gather together some of the tools that a researcher or engineer working on IR problems might find useful. Hopefully this will be useful to many.
Tools/Libraries for Information Retrieval
We will be updating that page as we come across more tools.
We are enabling comments on the page, please leave comments about any [...]

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