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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by throwaways885 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:16PM (#24840626)
MapReduce, GFS and Bigtable are the foundations of big data today.
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by throwaway2048 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:46PM (#24843069)
Those are good engineering efforts, but its like building a bridge vs understanding the theory of gravity.

They are definitely not foundational in anywhere near the sense that bell labs was.

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by read_if_gay_ on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:19PM (#24843296)
Maybe Bell Labs was only foundational due to timing?
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by konjin on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:34PM (#24840829)
None of those things are new or interesting. Maps were used in the 70s and you can find a chapter about them being parrapalized in Kthuths original Art of Computer Programming.
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by tylerhou on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:25PM (#24842008)
The original TOACP makes no mention of map parallelization.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Art_of_Computer_Pro...

Nor the second one:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Art_of_Computer_Program...

Nor the third one:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Art_of_Computer_Pro...

I also searched for "parallel" and couldn't find any relevant passages to map parallelization.

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