can you explain, briefly, what map-reduce is, so those not in the know (like me) will be able to decide if this is interesting? ;)
thanks, --guy Eran Sandler wrote: > Hi all, > > It's been a while since I've posted to Haifux (or Linux-IL for that > matter) but I am watching the mailing list from time to time and due to > personal reasons found myself as a Haifa citizen for the past year (and > probably for a couple more years :-) ). > > Somewhere in 2004 I even did a lecture on Mono, the open source .NET > implementation, if some of you recall. > > Recently I've been involved with a cool open source project called Disco. > > Disco is an open source Map-Reduce framework written in Erlang and > Python. It was written at Nokia's Palo Alto research center as a > lightweight framework for rapid scripting of distributed data processing > tasks but grew to become even more than that and is now even used for > probabilistic modeling, data mining, full text indexing, etc. > > You can read more about Disco at http://discoproject.org > > Would a lecture on Map-Reduce in general and specifically Disco would > interest people? > > If so, I'm more than willing to give the lecture and show some examples. > > Eran > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > Haifux@haifux.org > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux