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'Grid computing Red Hat' out-Amazons Amazon

spencer

condescending? 

Heart

"mapping epic data-crunching tasks across a sea of machines - i.e. splitting them into tiny sub-tasks - before reducing the results into one master calculation."

I think anyone who's done an a-level in either math or computing knows what map and reduce mean.

Jon 66

@spencer 

Unhappy

terribly sorry to darken your website with my inferior school attainments