Yahoo-TATA Pact
24 March 2008 by FabbiGabby
Yahoo has struck an agreement with Computational Research Laboratories, a unit of Tata Sons Ltd., to pursue research on “cloud computing” technologies. Yahoo said the project with the laboratory in Pune would use the world’s fourth-fastest supercomputer and Apache Hadoop, a framework for creating software that can handle large amounts of data using several computers.
“Tata will supply its supercomputer, the fourth-fastest in the world, while Yahoo will contribute technical expertise in Apache Hadoop. Launching our cloud computing program internationally with CRL is another significant milestone in creating a global, collaborative research community working to advance the new sciences of the Internet,” Ron Brachman, VP and head of academic relations for Yahoo, said in Yahoo Inc. Press Release.
Cloud computing refers to the use of giant data centers to run applications that users can access from a PC or mobile device. Companies offering such Web-based software include Internet companies Google, Yahoo, and Salesforce.com. Microsoft is also launching software offered as a Web service.
Yahoo and Tata made the announcement on the eve of the first Hadoop Summit.
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This refers to people using software applications that run somewhere on the internet, not on one’s own PC.
The practical application is SAS - Software As a Service. Instead of buying software, installing it on your PC and executing it there you would just click on my URL and use the software from there and I will charge you, depending on the features used and the volume of usage.
In order to be able to have zillions of users executing the software at my web site I will need to have MANY inter-connected computers handling the load.
‘Cloud Computing’ seems to be a more academic,research oriented, view of this same phenomenon.
I don’t consider this Yahoo-Tata project a big deal because as far as research goes, the leader isn’t Yahoo, it is Google which has a huge lead over anyone else. It is one of Google’s secrets which it is not about to share with anyone else.
I talked to someone who had worked as an intern at Google. Amazingly Google has a full copy of the ENTIRE INTERNET at each of Google’s 3 huge data centers at undisclosed locations - probably each one is in a different continent. The data centers are linked by massive fiber optic cables and there is an immense amount of inter-continental broadband traffic just to keep the 3 copies in synch.
Then Google uses it’s own secret Operating Systems (no it’s not XP Pro or Vista) to field the millions of search requests that come in from people like you and me, using 1000’s of linked computers. Each computer is apparently quite inexpensive.
The biggest surprise to me was that I had thought of the internet as almost infinite. But it is small enough that Google can keep 3 whole copies of it!!!
Referring to the comment above, you see a perfect example of the potential danger when reading misinformed comments. Google does not have a “copy of the ENTIRE INTERNET,” much less at 3 undisclosed locations. Do you realize how stupid that sounds? What is the Internet? It’s not a finite, tangible object of which you can make a “copy.” The Internet is a decentralized network of interconnected computers. Every day, tens of thousands of new computers, and the sites they host, come online — so how can you make “3 whole copies of it?” Google owns copies of its own search listings. Get it right.
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