The Troposphere » ap reduce http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing Meteorology for the cloud computing world Thu, 30 May 2013 13:51:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 In 140 characters tell me why map reduce is important? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/in-140-characters-tell-me-why-map-reduce-is-important/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/in-140-characters-tell-me-why-map-reduce-is-important/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:48:38 +0000 JohnMWillis http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-computing/?p=112 This morning Lance Weatherby, a local Atlanta venture catalyst, asked a simple question on twitter – “In 140 characters tell me why map reduce is important please.” When I saw the question it made me think about the answer. All of us who cover the cloud-o-sphere take terms like map reduce for granted. However, unless you are working directly with cloud computing or you have a BS from Stanford, you probably won’t have a clue why every one is so excited about these terms. My initial one word twitter answer was parallelism. Then I added a second word – multi-core. However, I guess my answers were lazy ones compared to others. Here is a list of great answers posted this morning to Lance’s and my re-tweet question…

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