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  HDFS has been used as a filestore in some of the US CMS Tier-2 sites, the new 
work that James discussed was that of actually treating physics problems as 
MapReduce jobs. They are bringing up a cluster of machines with storage for 
this, but would also like to use idle CPU time on other machines in the 
datacentre -there was some discussion on how to do this MAPREDUCE-1603 is now a 
feature request asking for a way to make the assessing of availability a 
feature that supported plugins. This would allow someone to write something 
that looked at non-Hadoop workload of machines and reduced the number Hadoop 
slots to report as being available when busy with other work.
  
+ == Leo Simons: The BBC  ==
+ Leo spoke about their CouchDB back end for the BBC web site
+  * [[http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/|Codeswarm]]: live graphics 
of their repository work.
+  * There's a new BBC homepage [[http://www.live.bbc.co.uk]]
+  * The web page is integrated with iplayer.
+  * Friday afternoons are busy iPlayer times. People either skive off work or 
watch TV from their desk.
+  * Lets you change your prefs -no need to login, the preferences are just 
bound to cookies
+  * Uses a hash of json to drive couchdb lookup, this lets them stay with 4M 
docs rather than 60M docs.
+  * They reach consistency in 40mS or so, no need for microsecond consistency 
as the rate of change of  homepage is below that.
+  * Compaction reduced the status display to "blue", rather than green, had 
everyone panicing but no visible change in behaviour. Moral: use light green 
instead.
+ Lots of fun with incomplete resharding causing intermittent replication 
failures. When an app saw a 404, it created a new doc as it expected this and 
kept going, created extra load and resulted in a 7h replication. 
+ 

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