Comments on: MapReduce is now reaching mainstream science

By: dalloliogm

dalloliogm — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:07:22 +0000

Thank you for the article, I had heard of this.
Also, the BigTable paper is interesting, I am looking forward to see your code. Are you writing in python?

By: Abhishek Tiwari

Abhishek Tiwari — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:54:00 +0000

@Deepak thanks for that link, that seems an interesting real time application

By: abhishektiwari

abhishektiwari — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:53:27 +0000

Thanks for comments. No one will disagree with that but sometime we need to write or learn something new and for that shake its fine idea.

By: Abhishek Tiwari

Abhishek Tiwari — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:53:26 +0000

MapReduce is now reaching mainstream science: Most of you will be aware about MapReduce, a framework developed b.. http://tinyurl.com/c42p7d

By: dissentingopinion

dissentingopinion — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:15:00 +0000

Remeber, people, the Byzantine Empire always falls.

Just write it in “C”, keep it simple and embarrassingly parallel and you’ll sleep at night.

Writing it in R/Python/Perl whatever and praying that a government subsidized “gigagantic cloud” is betting on a long shot.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:19:00 +0000

There’s also the work by DE Shaw which I wrote about last year http://mndoci.com/blog/2008/11/24/mapping-and-reducing-md-trajectories-with-himach/