Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Open Source Solution Breaks World Sorting Records
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> | In a recent blog post, Yahoo's grid computing team announced that Apache
> | Hadoop was used to break the current world sorting records in the annual
> | GraySort contest. It topped the 'Gray' and 'Minute' sorts in the general
> | purpose (Daytona) category. They sorted 1TB in 62 seconds, and 1PB in
> | 16.25 hours. Apache Hadoop is the only open source software to ever win
> | the competition. It also won the Terasort competition last year.
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> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/16/1316242
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> Red Hat Sets New Industry Benchmark Performance Records
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> | The dust is starting to settle around last week’s Intel Xeon 5500 series
> | processor “Nehalem-EP” launch, in which Red Hat was a prominent partner.
> | Intel called it their “most revolutionary server processors since…the
> | Intel Pentium Pro processor 15 years ago.” The proof may be in the large
> | number of new performance records that were established at the launch in
> | which Red Hat and our partners exceeded previous results on eight
> | different industry-standard tests. The results delivered by the
> | applications that we ran reflect the real-world scalability and
> | performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the new quad-core Intel
> | processors.
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> http://press.redhat.com/2009/04/16/performance-benchmarks/
[snip great post]
This reminds me of the Firefox 3 world record. I downloaded it and got a
cute little certificate. :) Did anyone else get one?
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