On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Edward J. Yoon <[email protected]>wrote:
> > This is a kind of newbie question (at least as far as Hadoop is > concerned). > > I was wondering if they were any Hadoop based project around dealing with > > Image indexing and searching ? We are working is this area and might be > > interesting to have a look in such a project. > > There is a text-search engine library, called lucene. See also the > nutch project. Otherwise, Did you mean something like content-based > image indexing and searching usig image attributes, such as, color, > texture, and etc., not the text of image tag? Yes this is exactly what I mean, I am looking at a project doing content-based image indexing using for example GIST, BOF, ... Does such a project exist ? > > > I think the MPI programming isn't suitable for the concept of > distributed hdfs and map/reduce programming system, since MPI requires > the heavy communication among the nodes. Ok I can understand your point - but I am sure that some people have been trying to use map-reduce programming model to do CFD, or any other scientific computing. Any experience in this area from the list ? Cheers Guillaume
