Yahoo sets program to boost distributed computing

Yahoo will launch an open source program for distributed computing software development.

NEW YORK - Yahoo will launch an open source program for developing software for distributed computing, with Carnegie Mellon University as its first academic partner in the venture.

Yahoo has been a main supporter of Hadoop, an open source distributed file system that lets users process massive amounts of data. The company said it would make Hadoop available to academic research in a supercomputing-class data center.

- REUTERS