Google's MapReduce

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

(This Google article suggestion comes from the CleverCS site):

http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf

"MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for
processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a map function
that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate
key/value pairs, and a reduce function that merges all intermediate
values associated with the same intermediate key."

This looks like something that can be (nicely) done with Python too.
Bye,
Bearophile