Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day ...

Microsoft is planning to move its Dryad parallel/distributed computing stack from Microsoft Research to Microsoft's Technical Computing Group and deliver a final version of that technology to ...

Hadoop with MapReduce combines some of the best features of both distributed computing and concurrent programming with a hefty dose of parallel programming thrown in for good measure. Chuck Lam, ...