> make the data 1TB and add 1000 machines, now lets see how fast you can sort with /usr/bin/sort! Still faster than Hadoop, because sorting the data will be fa

> make the data 1TB and add 1000 machines, now lets see how fast you can sort with /usr/bin/sort! Still faster than Hadoop, because sorting the data will be faster than sending it over a network. What should I do with the other 999 machines? (I know what you actually mean, by the way. Make it 100 TB and say that the data is already spread out across 1000 machines.)