On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Pavan Kulkarni <pavan.babu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes you are correct, but we can use Lustre FS and it does scale right? > I am new to this so please excuse if I am wrong in some assumptions.
You can use hybrid approaches, but you'd be venturing into the unknown. Take a look at these projects first: http://code.google.com/p/sailfish/ http://www.xyratex.com/pdfs/whitepapers/Xyratex_white_paper_MapReduce_1-4.pdf Thanks, Roman.