"It took six hours and two minutes to sort 1PB (10 trillion 100-byte records) on 4,000 computers. [...] An interesting question came up while running experiments at such a scale: Where do you put 1PB of sorted data? We were writing it to 48,000 hard drives" - Greg
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"Some of the nation’s universities are trying to sell chunks of their portfolios privately as their endowments swoon with the markets." - Greg
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I wonder what the overlap of users for these visitor numbers is -- "CNN reached 12.9 million unique users on Nov. 4, an increase of 51 percent versus the previous Tuesday, when interest in the election was already high. Meanwhile, MSNBC’s digital audience more than doubled week-to-week, hitting 12.1 million uniques on Election Day." - Greg
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