Google's MapReduce is a new parallelism framework for processing large amounts of data. Some recommended links are: Mining of Massive Datasets by Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, Jeff Ullman ( http://www.mmds.org/ ). Wu-Jun Li's course at Shangai Jiao Tong University: http://cs.nju.edu.cn/lwj/course/mmds.html