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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. They won the "Who has the most moneys" award. by nathan.fulton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...this cluster had nearly 4 times the number of nodes as the previous records. This competition was testing who had more nodes working together the best, but when you have so many more nodes, it would be hard not to top other clusters.

  2. Java by cratermoon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OK, so where are the "Java is slow" comments? o.O