Nano2Sol by Marc Boucher

As some of you may know one of my other projects is Project Phoenix which is an effort of my newly created company Hyperix Search, Inc. We’re focusing on a vertical search platform. One important aspect of any serious search platform is the need for a distributed file system and it’s map and reduce operations.

MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets and was originally created by Google. For some time now other companies and efforts having trying to replicate and improve on the process that Google created. This video takes you through Microsoft’s version of MapReduce called Dryad.

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