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MapReduce Gaining Traction: Tools Plugin Released for Eclipse and Amazon EC2 Support
IBM's Alphaworks website has released an Eclipse plugin to simplify the development of applications using Hadoop, the open source Java MapReduce framework. Work has also been done to easily allow Hadoop applications to run on Amazon's EC2 and S3 platforms for processing and storage.
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Run Your Own Google Style Computing Cluster with Hadoop and Amazon EC2
Amazon's EC2 Elastic Computing cloud allows developers to acquisition computing power a the rate of $0.10 per hour consumed. Work as been done to allow Hadoop an open source MapReduce implementation written in Java to run on EC2. This combination will allow developers to write scalable algorithms and then bring up large numbers of servers to use as computing power for them as needed.