On 1/18/08 3:29 PM, Jason Venner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We were thinking of doing this with some machines that do not have
decent disks but have plenty of netbandwidth.
We were doing it for a while, in particular for our data loaders*
but that was months and months ago.
I
We effectively have this situation on a significant fraction of our
work-load as well. Much of our data is summarized hourly and is encrypted
and compressed which makes it unsplittable. This means that the map
processes are often not local to the data since the data is typically spread
only to
