I just want to back this up by saying that I've been exposed a little to some AMP lab projects (Spark, Shark), and they're pretty cutting-edge for the industry.

I just want to back this up by saying that I've been exposed a little to some AMP lab projects (Spark, Shark), and they're pretty cutting-edge for the industry. That lab seems to be focused on tackling the same problems industry is actively working on, which is rare at my university. If you're interested in distributed, parallel computing in the vein of MapReduce, I would second Berkeley.