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Open Source Solution Breaks World Sorting Records

Posted by Soulskill on from the out-of-sorts dept.

allenw writes "In a recent blog post, Yahoo's grid computing team announced that Apache Hadoop was used to break the current world sorting records in the annual GraySort contest. It topped the 'Gray' and 'Minute' sorts in the general purpose (Daytona) category. They sorted 1TB in 62 seconds, and 1PB in 16.25 hours. Apache Hadoop is the only open source software to ever win the competition. It also won the Terasort competition last year."

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  1. Re:I'm sure that I can rock their scores by Thinboy00 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My sort will totally beat yours!

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  2. Re:Overlords by ModMeFlamebait · · Score: 5, Funny

    datasorting for I new one our overlords! welcome

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