[Year 12 SofDev] Alibaba wins the sort race
ATKINSON-BUCK, Damien
Damien.ATKINSON-BUCK at ivanhoe.com.au
Sat Nov 7 18:17:12 AEDT 2015
Hi all,
This puts the good old bubble sort to shame!!!
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/alibaba-cloud-wins-worldwide-battle-of-the-machines/
Some interesting links out of it to the FuxiSort whitepaper and the industry standard sort Hadoop<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop>.
Whilst the details are crazy, it could serve as a decent way to answer the old question "why do we need to learn this" regarding sorts, maths, FIFO and so on.
Cheers
Damien
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