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A comment on Ask HN: What would you do if you had access to a supercomputer for a week?.

Re:Ask HN: What would you do if you had access to a supercom... by umangjaipuria on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @05:49AM (#332090)
Run my map-reduce as a single task. :)
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Re:Ask HN: What would you do if you had access to a supercom... by kahseng on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @11:05AM (#332257)
I did think of that, but I realized that there wasn't too much additional value because map-reduce can be run cheaply enough on Hadoop clusters via EC2. I wonder if there are other ideas that this would open up.
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