June 21, 2009
June 2009 Apache Hadoop Get Together @ Berlin # Just a brief reminder: Next week on Thursday the next Apache Hadoop Get Together is scheduled to take place in Berlin. There are quite a few interesting talks scheduled:
Torsten Curdt: Data Legacy - the challenges of an evolving data warehouse
Christoph M. Friedrich, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI): “SCAIView - Lucene for Life Science Knowledge Discovery”.
...
May 5, 2009
Back from Zürich # I spend the last five days in Zurich. I wanted to visit the city again - and still owed one of my friends there a visit. I am really happy the weather was quite nice over the weekend. That way I could spend quite some time in town (got another one of those puzzles) and go for a hike on the Ütli mountain: I took the steep way up that had quite a lot of stairs.
...
May 3, 2009
DIMA @ TU Berlin # On Friday, the 24th of April Prof. Volker Markl organised a Welcome Workshop at TU Berlin. The day started with an introduction by the Dekan of the faculty. First talk was given by Rudolf Bayer on the topic “From B-Trees to UB-Trees”. Second presentation was by Guy Lohman on “LEO, DB2’s Learning Optimizer”.
After the coffee break, Volker Markl gave an introduction to his selected research field, outstanding tasks and the way he is going to accomplish his goals.
...
April 29, 2009
Feedback from the Hadoop User Group UK # A few weeks after the Hadoop User Group UK is over, there are quite a few postings on the event online. I will try to keep this page updated if there are any further reviews. The one I found so far:
http://huguk.org/2009/04/huguk-2-wrap-up.html - the wrap-up of the event itself.
http://blog.oskarsson.nu/2009_04_01_archive.html - a short summary by the organiser - Thanks again for a great event.
...
April 23, 2009
June 2009 Apache Hadoop Get Together @ Berlin # Title: Apache Hadoop Get Together @ Berlin
Location: newthinking store Berlin Mitte
Link out: Click here
Description: I just announced the fifth Apache Hadoop Get Together in Berlin at the newthinking store. Torsten Curdt offered to give a talk on data serialization with Thrift and Protocol Buffers.
If you have a topic you would like to talk about: Feel free to just bring your slides - there will be a beamer and lots of people interested in scalable information retrieval.
...
April 21, 2009
Mahout on EC2 # Amazon released Elastic Map Reduce only a few weeks ago. EMR is based on a hosted Hadoop environment and offers machines to run map reduce jobs against data in S3 on demand.
Last week Stephen Green has spent quite some effort to get Mahout running on EMR. Thanks to his work Mahout is running on EMR since last Thursday night. Read the weblog of Tim Bass for further information.
...
April 21, 2009
Hadoop User Group UK # On Tuesday the 14th the second Hadoop User Group UK took place in London. This time venue and pizza was sponsored by Sun. The room quickly filled http://www.thecepblog.com/2009/04/19/kmeans-clustering-now-running-on-elastic-mapreduce/with approximately 70 people.
Tom opened the session with a talk on 10 practical tips on how to get the most benefit from Apache Hadoop. The first question users should ask themselves is which type of programming language they want to use.
...
March 7, 2009
Hadoop User Group UK # Title: Hadoop User Group UK
Location: London/ Sun Office
Link out: Click here
Date: 2009-04-14<br />
Johan Oskarsson is organising the second Hadoop User Group UK in London in April this year. The schedule is already up:
Tom White (Cloudera): Practical MapReduce
Michael Stack (Powerset): Apache HBase
Isabel Drost (ASF): Introducing Apache Mahout
Iadh Ounis and Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow): Terrier
Paolo Castagna (HP): “Having Fun with PageRank and MapReduce”
...
March 7, 2009
March 2009 Hadoop Get Together Berlin # Since last summer, newthinking store Berlin is hosting a Hadoop Meetup every quarter of the year. The scope of these user group meetings is not only on Hadoop projects but deals with technologies necessary with storing, processing and searching large amounts of data.
The meeting last Thursday featured a talk by Lars George on his experiences using HBase in customer projects as early as in 2007.
...