MapReduce Explained
Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google’s programming models: MapReduce, which splits a task onto many computers on Google’s server farm (server farm, or single super computer, depending on how you look at it) to be quickly crunched.
«What is MapReduce? What does it do?
Suppose you’re at work, and you need to do something that’s going to take a long time to run on your computer. You don’t want to wait….
