(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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list