Hadoop and Atom Counting

Over the past few months I’ve been hacking together scripts to distribute data parallel jobs. However, it’s always nice when somebody else has done the work. In this case, Hadoop is an implementation of the map/reduce framework from Google. As Yahoo and others have shown, it’s an extremely scalable framework, and when coupled with Amazons […]

Stack Overflow – Not for Chemistry?

Rich Apodaca recently wrote a post highlighting StackOverflow – a community discussion site for software development, suggesting that a similar type of site for chemists would not work. He also posted a follow up listing some factors that make something like StackOverflow unlikely for the chemistry community. I had made a quick comment noting that […]