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Yahoo! inaugurates hadoop cluster lab at IIT Bombay

Zoya Anna Thomas
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Zoya Anna Thomas
Yahoo! India Research and Development has entered into an agreement with Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B), to provide access to a cluster of servers running Yahoo!’s Open Source Hadoop software and Web data, as part of an initiative to support the faculty and students of IIT-B in their research.

Hadoop is a Java software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. The partnership will support IIT-B researchers in areas such as advanced searching and ranking techniques aimed at bridging the gap between unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data, information extraction, and natural language processing.

Speaking at the inauguration of the Hadoop Cluster lab, Prabhakar Raghavan, SVP - Yahoo! Labs said, “Yahoo!’s collaboration with IIT Bombay will provide some of the brightest minds in India and the world with the raw computing power, Web-scale software technology, and rich data sets it will take to meet that challenge.”
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