Map-reduce is a style of computing that has been implemented several times. You can use an implementation of map-reduce to manage many large-scale computations in a way that is tolerant of hardware faults. All you need to write are two functions, called Map and Reduce, while the system manages the parallel execution, coordination of tasks that execute Map or Reduce, and also deals with the possibility that one of these tasks will fail to execute.
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