yes, this is perfectly fine: make each mapper one of your runs and simply emit the final result, along with the conditions leading to that result.
you won't need any reducers. Miles 2009/3/19 John Bergstrom <hillstr...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me if Hadoop is appropriate for the following application. > > I need to perform optimization using a single, small input data set. > To get a good result I must make many independent runs of the > optimizer, where each run is initiated with a different starting > point. At completion, I just choose the best solution from all of the > runs. So my problem is not that I'm working with big data, I just want > to speed up my run time by linking several Ubuntu desktops that are > available to me. The optimizer is written in ANSI C. > > Thanks, > > John > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
