Computer scientists claim world data sorting record for second year
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 06:30
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Not content to rest on their laurels, a team of data center researchers from the Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California, San Diego recently broke two of their own world records. They also set world records in three other categories, including one for their TritonSort-MR system sorting a terabyte (one trillion bytes) of data in 106 seconds.