Microsoft Drops Dryad to Focus on Hadoop
A recent blog post on the Windows HPC Team Blog reveals that it has now decided to discontinue work on LINQ to HPC, code named 'Dryad'. Dryad was designed to provide a platform for developers to to build applications that can process large amounts of data. Microsoft has now partnered with Hortonworks, which is a Yahoo spinoff that specializes in Hadoop, to help develop software distributions for Windows Server and Windows Azure. A Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Azure Hadoop version is due to be out before the end of this year, while the Windows Server test build of Hadoop is due some time in 2012. Senior program manager, Don Pattee, on the HPC Team Blog has acknowledged that Hadoop has emerged as a great platform for analyzing unstructured data or large volumes of data at low cost.