n="right" height="60" width="250" />Last Oktober, the LarKC team at the VU Amsterdam was the first to use the <a rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce" class="zem_slink" title="MapReduce">MapReduce</a> framework for distributed RDFS reasoning. In <a href="http://data.semanticweb.org/papers/iswc/2009/paper374.pdf">their ISWC 2009 paper</a>, they reported some of the fastest RDFS inference rates seen at that date, at 4 million inferences per second on a 32 machine cluster.</p>
<p>At the