Shameless self-promotion: this is a (Hebrew) article about the new Hadoop system we built in BGU.
http://in.bgu.ac.il/Pages/news/Hadoop.aspx
Couldn't do it without reading posts by Michael G. Noll. Start with his posts about installing Hadoop if you ever want to get it done right.
http://www.michael-noll.com/
Yay!
