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  [http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/ Hadoop] is a framework for running applications on large clusters built of commodity hardware. The Hadoop framework transparently provides applications both reliability and data motion. Hadoop implements a computational paradigm named [:HadoopMapReduce: Map/Reduce], where the application is divided into many small fragments of work, each of which may be executed or reexecuted on any node in the cluster. In addition, it provides a distributed file system that stores data on the compute nodes, providing very high aggregate bandwidth across the cluster. Both Map/Reduce and the distributed file system are designed so that node failures are automatically handled by the framework.
  
  The intent is to scale Hadoop up to handling thousand of computers. The current high water marks that have been reported are:
-  * Nodes in a single file system cluster (!DataNodes): 620
+  * Nodes in a single file system cluster (!DataNodes): 902
-  * Nodes in a single map/reduce cluster (!TaskTrackers): 500
+  * Nodes in a single map/reduce cluster (!TaskTrackers): 902
  
  Hadoop was originally built as infrastructure for the [http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/ Nutch] project, which crawls the web and builds a search engine index for the crawled pages. Both Hadoop and Nutch are part of the [http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html Lucene] [http://www.apache.org/ Apache] project.