The NYT had one of the first publicly known Hadoop clusters (for a major media company, not a tech company) which they used to process the historical articles.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.blogs.nytimes.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;05&#x2F;21&#x2F;the-new-york-times-archives-amazon-web-services-timesmachine&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.blogs.nytimes.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;05&#x2F;21&#x2F;the-new-york-times-...</a>