Hadoop at home: Large-scale computing at a small college

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 106-110

  Brown, Richard A ^a  

^a ST OLAF COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Management; Performance; Reliability

Indexed keywords

BEOWULF CLUSTER; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CS EDUCATION; DATA-INTENSIVE SCALABLE COMPUTING; EXPERIMENTATION; LARGE-SCALE COMPUTING; MAP-REDUCE; PERFORMANCE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; UNDERGRADUATE CS CURRICULUM;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77956198090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1508904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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