Hadoop, the hero behind the scenes in achieving the super power from commodity machines.
Lets step a side and look at the Super Computers. What you see is great computing power which do the jobs just like that. However, great power comes with some cost - Super Computers are the drinkers of energy i.e. electrical energy and the by product they produce is lots of heat.
Have you ever imagined what is there to achieve this super computing power ? one of the answers is grid computing which in other way called as distributed computing.
Now, coming back to our day to day life, where is our personal computer stands in front of the super computer ? Just to give you an anomaly,
One K Computer (the fastest know SC) equals 96,422 i7 processors - theoretically
So are our personal computers really that small ? that useless ?
Not really .
Here comes a hero - Hadoop - A framework for distributed computing which mainly works with commodity machines. Imagine how much your PC/Laptop personal or official is being used on Processing power and Memory. If you can monitor you machine over a 24hr period you will come to know lots of computing power is remain unused.
So, lets dream that you can combine virtually all these unused computing power and space on all the machines in your organization to build a virtual super computing power.
Exiting ? That is what Hadoop gives.
It is already been proven by many of the well know web giants on how Hadoop can produce this great computing power.
Thanks to all who have contributed and invented this wonderful framework.
For more information , please visit http://hadoop.apache.org/
And do not forget to visit "Who Uses Hadoop?" there. You will be exited to see what your favorite companies are doing with Hadoop.
And to dream big, lets sum up all the computing power from all the commodity machines in the world with the help of our one more friend - the big guy - 'The Internet' - That is a really big super computing power.
World bank stats says 30% of world's population is connected to Internet. I am leaving rest to your thoughts ;)
