Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 23, 2008 @04:53AM from the sort-of-fast dept.

krewemaynard writes "Google has announced that they were able to sort one petabyte of data in 6 hours and 2 minutes across 4,000 computers. According to the Google Blog, '... to put this amount in perspective, it is 12 times the amount of archived web data in the US Library of Congress as of May 2008. In comparison, consider that the aggregate size of data processed by all instances of MapReduce at Google was on average 20PB per day in January 2008.' The technology making this possible is MapReduce 'a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets.' We discussed it a few months ago. Google has also posted a video from their Technology RoundTable discussing MapReduce."

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I'm surprised by TheSpoom · 2008-11-23 07:37 · Score: 0, Redundant

...that Google hasn't implemented the Libraries of Congress metric into their auto-calculator.
C'mon Google, get on the ball(s)!

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