Hadoop is a Java software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables high scalability and helps in massive parallel data intensive computations.

Yahoo! India Research & Development entered into an agreement with Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) to provide access to a cluster of servers running Yahoo!'s Open Source Hadoop software, and Web data, as part of an initiative to support the faculty and students of IITB in their research.

The partnership support IITB researchers study areas such as advanced searching and ranking techniques aimed at bridging the gap between unstructured, semi-structured and structured data, information extraction and natural language processing.

This partnership is an example of Yahoo!'s universal obligation to leveraging industry-academia relationships to deliver breakthrough technology and innovations.

As a result of the agreement, IIT-B researchers have access to a cloud computing environment, allowing carrying out research on Web-scale data. The cluster provided by Yahoo! is set up at IIT Bombay and is already operational.

Hadoop Cluster lab is like the next wave of scientific breakthroughs will come from research and development conducted at the same unprecedented scale and scope as the Internet itself.

The collaboration provide some of the brightest minds in India and the world with the raw computing power, Web-scale software technology and rich data sets it will take to meet that challenge.

IIT Bombay's research on search, data management and natural language processing has received national and international recognition; this partnership help us take research to a new level, leveraging Web scale data.

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