Grant’s Grunts: Lucene Edition

I have committed Mahout’s first Hadoop based machine learning code: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-3
The code is an initial implementation of Canopy clustering. It is a start and it is great to see others jump right in and start adding code!  Great work, Jeff Eastman, who contributed the initial implementation!
Now, we can start building more goodness in order to [...]

Yahoo! Launches World’s Largest Hadoop Production Application (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!)
Hadoop at large scale!  Wish I had access to some of those machines! 

How Rackspace Now Uses MapReduce and Hadoop to Query Terabytes of Data | High Scalability
Nice article on how the Lucene/Hadoop/Solr stack was used to solve a really big problem.  Someday, I hope (when we have actual code),  they can add Mahout to the equation and do even more interesting things with the data.

The Two Flavors of Google
Nice article on Hadoop at Business Week and some good quotes from Lucene Java creator Doug Cutting.  Hadoop holds a lot of promise for the future of large scale computing, although I don’t want to burden it with that kind of claim, either.  In the end, it makes solving a good [...]