I would have told them to distribute the data in smaller logical partitions.....there is no way 10^80 objects can be handled.Even external sort will take painfully enormous amount of time making it infeasible practically. Saurabh Singh B.Tech (Computer Science) MNNIT blog:geekinessthecoolway.blogspot.com
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Abhishek Goswami <[email protected]>wrote: > @DAVE > hmm I am agree with you that we will not have that much huge > data. This question came in my interview process and I was not able to > figure out the solution of this issue.So I thought to check this forum > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > >> @Abhishek: Do you really mean 10 to the 80th power. I doubt if there >> is that much information in the world. >> >> Dave >> >> On Jan 14, 12:09 pm, Abhishek Goswami <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > Could any point out me any algorithm and program if we need to sort to >> > large data >> > like 10 ^ 80 with memory constraint. Suppose you have minimum memory >> like 4 >> > MB. >> > >> > I am not sure that this algo discussed or not but i was not able to >> find in >> > this group. >> > >> > Thanks >> > Abhishek >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
