Assign task to the workers.

Hi, The same task can be done in different ways, i.e a sort task can be done by merge sort, heap sort etc. Is possible in MapReduce assign different task to the workers? Can the master assign a merge sort task to one worker and assign heap sort task to another worker? Thanks, Maria

Assign different task to the workers.

Hi, The same task can be done in different ways, i.e a sort task can be done by merge sort, heap sort etc. Is possible in MapReduce assign different task to the workers? Can the master assign a merge sort task to one worker and assign heap sort task to another worker? Thanks, Maria

Re: Assign different task to the workers.

The same mapper class will be used for all map tasks. Individual tasks could perhaps do something clever like recover their task ids and do something different based on task id modulo the number of distinct task types, but in general, the idea behind MapReduce is that all tasks should be applying t