[chromejs10]

The papers published on the Google File System (GFS) and Map Reduce are still some of my all time favorite papers. It gives really good inside into how GFS/Map Reduce was built, but explains it in a very straight forward way. We actually implemented an in memory version of GFS/MapReduce in my graduate operating systems class. It remains as one of my favorite projects I've ever done.

http://research.google.com/archive/gfs.html

http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html

[nitishmd]

That sounds like an interesting project to do in spare time. Can you link to the project description? or your universities class notes?

[chromejs10]

Yeah sure. Here is the project page: https://sites.google.com/a/cs.usfca.edu/cs-636-2011s/project...

All notes and stuff can be found here: https://sites.google.com/a/cs.usfca.edu/cs-636-2011s/schedul...

I learned a ton about MapReduce and GFS. It was a great learning experience.

[nitishmd]

great thank you!