Summary: Chris Mattmann is a Software Engineer at NASA's JPL. He's the VP of OODT in the Apache Software Foundation and an adjunct professor at USC. OODT is a framework for managing data from multiple sources and adding them to other data sources for different purposes (like a database and a search engine.) It manages hundreds of thousands of job in a day and terabytes or petabytes of data from various sources. Mentioned in this episode: Apache OODT Nutch Hadoop Apache Software Foundation NASA NASA JPL ftp sftp Solr Lucene Hive File Catalog vs Search Engine Tika Goodle Project Management was the hard part Assume that failure happens and recover quickly Ganglia Torque PBS struts IDL CHLA (Childrens Hospital of LA) VPICU <a href="http://oodt.apache.org/contact/">OODT Contact page (info on mailing lists, etc.)</a>
