Disk-locality in datacenter computing considered irrelevant
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Ali Ghodsi, Scott J. Shenker, Ion Gabriel Stoica · 2011
Data center computing is becoming pervasive in many organizations. Computing frameworks such as MapRe-duce [17], Hadoop [6] and Dryad [25], split jobs into small tasks that are run on the cluster’s compute nodes.