In that case, kudos! One of my pet gripes about Hadoop is that it really used to be unusable without HDFS (don't know if that's changed). If you truly manage to

In that case, kudos! One of my pet gripes about Hadoop is that it really used to be unusable without HDFS (don't know if that's changed). If you truly manage to develop it to a stable release with all the features of Hadoop, I definitely see it making some inroads in scientific computation.