Archive for June, 2008

  • Running

    I recently purchased an iPod nano with the Nike + iPod kit. My Nike+ screenname is “Aidan F”, for anyone who wants to challenge me.

    Saturday, June 21st, 2008
  • My own personal cluster

    I am now the proud operator of a three-node Hadoop cluster. Hadoop is a Java-based MapReduce implementation, an open-source version of the technology that allows Google to perform massive parallel computing on cheap, commodity hardware. I set it up with my OS X laptop running the NameNode (the distributed filesystem coordinator) and JobTracker (the distributed [...]

    Sunday, June 1st, 2008