>From the Google Blog, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/sorting-1pb-with-mapreduce.html
"We are excited to announce we were able to sort 1TB (stored on the Google File System as 10 billion 100-byte records in uncompressed text files) on 1,000 computers in 68 seconds. By comparison, the previous 1TB sorting record [using Hadoop] is 209 seconds on 910 computers." Something for the Hadoop community to aim for: a threefold performance increase. Tom
