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Re:Google's Secret Weapon: MapReduce by kqr2 on Thursday December 11, 2008 @05:28PM (#394950)
Re:Google's Secret Weapon: MapReduce by wheels on Thursday December 11, 2008 @07:01PM (#395092)
Latest version of Qt also implements MapReduce patterns (only for multi-core, not across the network). There's also good old MPI, which isn't terribly sexy, but gets the job done. I found this post rather interesting when I ran across it:

http://jaliyacgl.blogspot.com/2008/07/july-2nd-report.html