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What happened about Titanic in year 1912? Let’s check it out

This image comes from http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser – a Times Machine service from NewYorkTimes. You could possibly browse a photocopy of newspaper of NewYorkTimes of any day during 1850 till 1920.

The storage could be in terabyte. Behind NewYorkTimes, Amazon introduces this technology architecture and makes this happen, by using it’s Simple Storage Services (S3) + Apache Hadoop on top of its own Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) . It’s known there are more than 405,000 jpeg or tiff files stored in this cloud environment.

It is a real commercial cloud computing service… Check the detail written by Derek Gottfrid

How does TimesMachine look like?

What is Hadoop? What technology is used? MapReduce

How does MapReduce work?

see the briefing information from Google > http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html

And a comprehensive tutorial > http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/mapreduce-tutorial.html

Source : http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/…compute_clouds.php

A traditional relational database architecture >

A compute cloud architecture, to resolve multiple issues, looks like >