Posted by Allison Mooney, Christina Park, and Caroline McCarthy, The Think Quarterly TeamThere’s a lot of research, analysis and insights—from inside and outside Google—that we use in building our products and making decisions. To share what we’ve learned with our partners, we created Think Quarterly. It’s intended to be a snapshot of what Google and other industry leaders are talking about and inspired by right now.Today we’re launching our second edition, the “People” issue, exploring the latest technologies connecting us and the big ideas driving...
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Trying on the new Dynamic Views from Blogger
Posted on 15:11 by Unknown
Posted by Alison Powell, Google Research TeamAs you may have noticed, the Google Research blog looks a lot different today. That’s because we—along with a few other Google blogs—are trying out a new set of Blogger templates called Dynamic Views.Launched today, Dynamic Views is a unique browsing experience that makes it easier and faster for readers to explore blogs in interactive ways. We’re using the Magazine view, but you can also preview this blog in any of the other six new views by using the view selection bar at the top left of the screen.We’re...
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Sorting Petabytes with MapReduce - The Next Episode
Posted on 16:50 by Unknown
Posted by Grzegorz Czajkowski, Marián Dvorský, Jerry Zhao, and Michael Conley, Systems InfrastructureAlmost three years ago we announced results of the first ever "petasort" (sorting a petabyte-worth of 100-byte records, following the Sort Benchmark rules). It completed in just over six hours on 4000 computers. Recently we repeated the experiment using 8000 computers. The execution time was 33 minutes, an order of magnitude improvement.Our sorting code is based on MapReduce, which is a key framework for running multiple processes simultaneously...
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