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Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours
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."
for destroying the language and the culture of every country in which they are found! Just think about it ... they are the only ethnic group who can be in the USA for more than 1-2 generations without sounding like a native English speaker. Even native Mandarin Chinese speakers who come to the USA have children who sound like native English speakers. Niggers have had how many hundreds of years now? Oh but we're supposed to call it "Ebonics" and pretend like this is somehow not a failure of theirs. Better to fuck up the entire language for everyone than to tell a 13% minority to get with the program. Brilliant! Don't worry, at least that way everyone's widdle feelings won't get hurt. Because that's more important than anything else, right? Right, you pantywaists?!