brain of mat kelcey

just finished my first hadoop experiment.matpalm.com/sipnot fantastic results but heaps of of feedback from hadoop mailing groupmore results coming soon...

i got asked in an interview once “how would find the median of a trillion numbers across a thousand machines?”the question has haunted me, until now.here’s my ruby and erlang implementation with a bit of running amazon ec2 thrown in for good measure….. matpalm.com/median/grab the code from github...