Howard Gobioff
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Howard Gobioff | |
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| Born | 1971 |
| Died | 2008 (aged 36) |
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| Fields | Computer science |
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Howard Gobioff (1971 – 2008) was a computer scientist.[1] He graduated magna cum laude with a double major in computer science and mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park. At Carnegie Mellon University, he worked on the network attached secure disks project,[2] before he went on to earn his PhD in computer science. He died suddenly from lymphoma at the age of 36.[3]
In 1999, Gobioff went to work for Google, which was then just a 40-person startup. As a software engineer, he worked on the advertising system and the crawling and indexing system. In 2004, as a Google engineering director, he launched and led their Tokyo research and development center.[4]
Google File System
Gobioff was one of the architects of the Google File System, a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google for its own use. In "The Google File System,"[5] the seminal paper about the software, Gobioff and his co-authors outlined their design, reported measurements, and presented real world use of the system.
Apache Hadoop's MapReduce and Hadoop Distributed File System components were originally derived respectively from Google's MapReduce and Google File System papers.[6] Using the Google File System and MapReduce, or the Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, a project can perform a computation over 300 Tbytes of data using 1,000 nodes, which previously would have been unachievable for most projects.[7][8]
