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MapReduce

Google's MapReduce is a new parallelism framework for processing large amounts of data. Some recommended links are:

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  1. Hey Alex
    you may like this book about about large scale text processing with mapreduce
    http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/book.html

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  2. Thanks, Andrei. Seems very good book.

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