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A comment on Ask HN: If a Hadoop cluster were free, what would you do?.

Re:Ask HN: If a Hadoop cluster were free, what would you do? by lrosiak on Thursday November 14, 2013 @05:25PM (#6736126)
I'd use it for running optical character recognition on millions of pages of government documents to make public information truly free, at http://citizenaudit.org/. But I really just need the 26 cores with a master node feeding documents for that, not actually map-reduce.
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Re:Ask HN: If a Hadoop cluster were free, what would you do? by tonydiv on Thursday November 14, 2013 @05:46PM (#6736252)
Hmm, if there's no MR involved, I'm not sure our GPUs would be very helpful for this type of job. What do you think?
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