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Re:History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google by JavaScriptrr on Thursday February 18, 2016 @05:59PM (#11130066)
Only at Google
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Re:History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google by fintler on Thursday February 18, 2016 @06:08PM (#11130111)
I wonder how fast this could do it:

http://www.lanl.gov/projects/trinity/specifications.php

They're claiming 87.0 TB/min on an 80PB filesystem, relative to Google's 36.2 TB/min.

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Re:History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google by cshimmin on Thursday February 18, 2016 @06:50PM (#11130394)
That just their I/O bandwidth. There is computing overhead in actually doing the sort. Also google was using redundant persistence.
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Re:History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google by tyre on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:32PM (#11130588)
To add to this, Google's results were in 2012.
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