Yahoo! Inc. announced an agreement to jointly support cloud computing research.  As part of the agreement, CRL will make available to researchers one of the world's top five supercomputers that has substantially more processors than any supercomputer currently available for cloud computing research. The Yahoo!/CRL effort is intended to leverage CRL's expertise in high performance computing and Yahoo!'s technical leadership in Apache Hadoop, an open source distributed computing project of the Apache Software Foundation, to enable scientists to perform data-intensive computing research on a 14,400 processor supercomputer.     

Called the EKA, CRL's supercomputer is ranked the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world - it has 14,400 processors, 28 terabytes of memory, 140 terabytes of disks, a peak performance of 180 trillion calculations per second (180 teraflops), and sustained computation capacity of 120 teraflops for the LINPACK benchmark.  Of the top ten supercomputers in the world, EKA is the only supercomputer funded by the private sector and is available for use on commercial terms.  EKA is expected to run the latest version of Hadoop and other state-of-the-art, Yahoo!-supported, open-source distributed computing software such as the Pig parallel programming language developed by Yahoo! Research.  This Yahoo!/CRL announcement comes on the eve of the first ever Hadoop Summit.  Sponsored by Yahoo! and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) which is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Hadoop Summit brings together leaders from the Hadoop developer and user communities to discuss current projects and future directions of this cloud computing environment. 

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