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

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-funded program to use

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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 and

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

". 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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