I assume you have read Google's GFS and Map/Reduce papers. In case you did not, that will be a very good starting point.
Runping > -----Original Message----- > From: Qichen Tu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:32 PM > To: hadoop-dev@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Hi, I want to make some contribution > > Hi,all. Nice to meet you! > > I am a master candidate of Peking Univ. of China, and major in distributed > system. Recently, I am very interesting in hadoop, it's a great project, > and I want to do some contribution to it. > > Now I am reading the code of hadoop, but lack of necessary documents > except > API doc, the process is very slow. So could anyone send some development > documents to me? for example, class digram, sequence digram or other > specification documents. > > Thanks. > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Tu Qichen