Why IBM/IIUG's academic initiative failed....

All, I realize that you don't what I'm saying, but I want to put some things in perspective. The IIUG in partnership with IBM attempted to do some grass roots marketing on some campuses around the country. Not sure of the results, but while there may be some "Informix Clubs", there isn't a lot of market penetration. You've heard about Hadoop, and its concepts, but I wanted to attach an e-mail that went out on one of the mailing lists. Note: This is one that just came in to my hands. There are more out there, but the point is that if you're looking at something which has caught the attention of University students, then you'd understand why IBM and the IIUG failed to really light a spark and get a lot of attention. Note to Jerry Keesee, this is the program I'm talking about. Not IBM's University Cloud Initiative. (And the jury is still out on that one...) But hey! What do I know? -G <e-mail message below> Hi, I am a graduate student in Computer Science department at [redacted]. I am thinking of doing a project on Hadoop for my course "Cloud Computing" conducted by [redacted]. While going through the links of the "Yahoo open source projects for students" page I found the idea "Research on new hashing schemes for filesystem namespace partitioning" interesting. It looks to me the idea is to assign subtree of the whole namespace to one namenode and another subtree to another namenode. How LSH is better than normal hashing? Because still, a client or a fixed namenode has to take decision of which namenode to contact in whatever hashing ? It looks to me that requests to files under same subtree are directed to the same namenode then the performance will be faster as the requests to the same namenode are clustered around the a part of namespace subtree (For example a part of on which client is doing some operation.) Is this assumption correct? Can I have more insight in this regard. Thanks, [Redacted] _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/