Cluster Exploratory (CluE) was a proposed 2008 U.S.

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-funded program to use

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- IBM cluster technology to analyze massive amounts of data to search for patterns, part of the Academic Cluster Computing Initiative (ACCI). "The cluster will consist of 1,600 processors, several terabytes of memory, and hundreds of terabytes of storage, along with the software, including IBM's Tivoli and open source versions of

Google File System Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS, not to be confused with the GFS Linux file system) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware. Goo ...

and

MapReduce MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating big data sets with a parallel, distributed algorithm on a cluster. A MapReduce program is composed of a ''map'' procedure, which performs filtering ...

". Google and IBM announced the first pilot phase of the ACCI in October 2007. The program ended in 2011, according to Google.Derrick Harris
No more access to Google’s Hadoop cloud for researchers
Gigaom. 22 Dec 2011 NSF's call for proposals has been "archived".
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