Technical Perspective: THE DATA CENTER IS THE COMPUTER.

The article discusses MapReduce, a scheme developed by Google for managing the workloads for data center computers. A data center is apt of have a wide variety of machines with differing capacities. MapReduce addresses this by making assignments based on how efficiently a machine has completed recen...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 105 - 106
Main Author:	Patterson, David A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jan2008
Subjects:	Data libraries Distributed computing Google Inc. Computer networks Electronic data processing Information storage & retrieval systems
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost