Cade Metz at the Register discusses Colossus (GFS2) and Caffeine. theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/g ... They permit more timely index updates than MapReduce. A paper is to be presented at the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). usenix.org/events/osdi10/

blogoscoped.com/forum/171693.h ...
blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-0 ...

picotech.com/applications/colo ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus ...
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