Also see "Breaking the MapReduce Stage Barrier" from UIUC: http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/14819/breaking.pdf
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Ashutosh Chauhan < ashutosh.chau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bharath, > > This idea is kicking around in academia.. not made into apache yet.. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1211 > > You can get a working prototype from: > http://code.google.com/p/hop/ > > Ashutosh > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 09:06, E. Sammer <e...@lifeless.net> wrote: > > On 3/4/10 12:00 PM, bharath v wrote: > >> > >> Hi , > >> > >> Can we pipeline the map output directly into reduce phase without > >> storing it in the local filesystem (avoiding disk IOs). > >> If yes , how to do that ? > > > > Bharath: > > > > No, there's no way to avoid going to disk after the mappers. > > > > -- > > Eric Sammer > > e...@lifeless.net > > http://esammer.blogspot.com > > >