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Paper

2003

The Google File System

Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff & Shun-Tak Leung

Argues that component failure should be treated as the normal case rather than the exception, and designs a file system around relaxed consistency and chunk-level replication instead of POSIX semantics.

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Works in the library that name this one as a prerequisite.

MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large ClustersJeffrey Dean & Sanjay Ghemawat, 2004Shows that a huge class of data-processing jobs can be expressed as two functions, letting the runtime handle parallelism, failure and data placement.

Filed under Distributed Systems in Computer Science.