For MapReduce, I always call them "JobTracker" and "TaskTracker", for HDFS, "Namenode" and "DataNode"
because of the name of classes in source code???:-) Nan On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Mark Hedges <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why don't you call them "directors" and "workers" instead of > "masters" and "slaves" ? > > Mark > > -- Nan Zhu School of Electronic, Information and Electrical Engineering,229 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 800,Dongchuan Road,Shanghai,China E-Mail: [email protected]
