Depends how Googles network is set up and how fast and over provisioned it is - how much budget you have for networking also comes into it (that's the power bud

Depends how Googles network is set up and how fast and over provisioned it is - how much budget you have for networking also comes into it (that's the power budget btw) Brad Hedlund has some interesting articles on the challenges http://bradhedlund.com/2011/11/05/hadoop-network-design-challenge/ http://bradhedlund.com/2011/11/05/hadoop-network-design-chal...