Most conversations about Hadoop and MapReduce tend to filter in from enterprise quarters, but if the recent uptick in scholarly articles extolling its benefit for scientific and technical computing ...

Hadoop Streaming allows developers to use virtually any programming language to create MapReduce jobs, but it’s a bit of a kludge. The MapReduce programming environment needs to be pluggable.

Hadoop 2.0 makes MapReduce less compulsory and the distributed file system more reliable.