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We’re pleased to announce the winner’s of the MongoDB blogging contest!

Grand Prize

• Why (and How) I Replaced Amazon SQS with MongoDB - Matt Insler

Runners Up

• Running MongoDb on Microsoft Windows Azure with CloudDrive - Simon Green
• Using MongoDB for CodeIgniter Logs - Tom Schlick
• Integrating MongoDB with Spring Batch - Baruch Sadogursky

The winners should contact meghan@10gen.com to claim their prizes.

You check out all the awesome entries at mongodb.slinkset.com

Thanks to everyone who submitted!

On May 21, 10gen organized the second conference dedicated to MongoDB. Like MongoSF, MongoNYC included a great line-up of speakers. One of the more popular talks was Kyle Banker’s Schema Design session, which was so crowded that many attendees sat on the floor! Both the video and slides from the talk are now available. 

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Valentin Kuznetsov just presented a paper at the International Conference on Computational Science on CERN’s use of MongoDB for Large Hadron Collider data. The paper, The CMS Data Aggregation System, is available as a PDF at ScienceDirect.

“CMS” stands for Compact Muon Solenoid, a general-purpose particle physics detector built on the Large Hadron Collider. The CMS project posted a few comics which provide a nice, simple (if somewhat cheesy) explanation of what the CMS/LHC does.

The LHC generates massive amounts of data of all different varieties, which is distributed across a worldwide grid. It sends status messages to some of the computers, job monitoring info to other computers, bookkeeping info still elsewhere, and so on.

This means that each location has specialized queries it can do on the data it has, but up until now it’s been very difficult to query across the whole grid. Enter the Data Aggregation System, designed to allow anything to be queried across all of the machines.

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