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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:54:47 +0000
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Subject: Re: Will Hadoop help for my application?
From: Miles Osborne <miles@inf.ed.ac.uk>
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yes, this is perfectly fine:  make each mapper one of your runs and
simply emit the final result, along with the conditions leading to
that result.

you won't need any reducers.

Miles

2009/3/19 John Bergstrom <hillstream@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me if Hadoop is appropriate for the following application.
>
> I need to perform optimization using a single, small input data set.
> To get a good result I must make many independent runs of the
> optimizer, where each run is initiated with a different starting
> point. At completion, I just choose the best solution from all of the
> runs. So my problem is not that I'm working with big data, I just want
> to speed up my run time by linking several Ubuntu desktops that are
> available to me. The optimizer is written in ANSI C.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>


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