Hadoop Users Group (Pittsburgh)

05/25/2010

We're proud to present a special HUG Pittsburgh event on May 25, 2010. TALK: "It’s Two O’clock in the Morning: Do You Know Where Your Petabytes Are?" SPEAKER: Robert Chansler, Yahoo!. TIME & LOCATION: 6pm, Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 (**TODAY**) at Gates 4303 (McWilliams Classrooms), Carnegie Mellon University. Pizza will be provided.

[b]Its Two Oclock in the Morning: Do You Know Where Your Petabytes Are? [/b] [i]Robert Chansler, Engineering Manager, Grid Computing, Yahoo![/i] The Hadoop Distributed File System at Yahoo! sto

11/15/2009

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11/10/2009

Did you get your Pittsburgh HUG t-shirt yet? Make sure you come to the next HUG meeting!

10/31/2009

Next meeting on November 3, 2009. Two talks--one on MapReduce for astronomical applications (Eugene Fink) and the other on Apache Pig (Dmitriy Ryaboy and Ashutosh Chauhan). Please RVSP using the Meetup link so that we have an accurate head-count for room reservation and catering. See you there!

We're a group of Pittsburgh-based Hadoop & cloud-computing technologists, enthusiasts and researchers who discuss emerging technologies, Hadoop & related software development (HBase, Hypertable, PIG,

09/28/2009

Today's HUG meeting in GHC 6115 (Gates Hillman Center, Carnegie Mellon campus) at 6pm. Please follow the link below to RSVP.

We're a group of Pittsburgh-based Hadoop & cloud-computing technologists, enthusiasts and researchers who discuss emerging technologies, Hadoop & related software development (HBase, Hypertable, PIG,

09/28/2009

Two exciting technical talks today at the first ever Hadoop Users Group Pittsburgh meeting: (1) Hadoop Performance Tuning -- Milind Bhandarkar, Yahoo! (2) Exploring HDFS: Comparisons to Parallel File Systems, and RAID in HDFS -- Wittawat Tantisiriroj, Bin Fan and Lin Xiao

09/12/2009

First HUG meeting on September 28, 2009 evening. Milind Bhandarkar of Yahoo! will be giving a talk on "Hadoop Performance Tuning". Details (location, time) to be announced. Milind Bhandarkar has a PhD in Computer Science and has involved in parallel programming for the last 20 years. He has been one of the early contributors to Hadoop, and currently leads the Grid Solutions team at Yahoo!.