I was astounded to see that Google now claims to sort 6 petabytes in a few hours. This is astounding. I bet Frank Yeager would be interested in this, I know we could never come close to this in the mainframe world. I am in complete awe of this. It is not clear exactly what they are sorting unfortunately but if it is even half true the sort on the mainframe may be passed its prime and showing its age.
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