Hadoop 2.3.0

Did you know that your old laptop could be of some value? I don’t mean monetary value, rather resource value. If you have an old laptop or desktop computer just lying around picking up dust, why not let it contribute to a big project? Well it can do just that with the Apache Hadoop project.

The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-availability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-available service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.

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