Interesting. Thank you. They revise Bittorrent for use inside data centers, where block sizes can be much larger and there aren't any malicious nodes. They pref

Interesting. Thank you. They revise Bittorrent for use inside data centers, where block sizes can be much larger and there aren't any malicious nodes. They prefer Bittorrent to alternatives because, through its broadcast overhead is higher, it scales better with number of nodes. One thing I didn't glean from the paper is whether the advantages of BT are unique to their framework or whether they would apply just as well to MapReduce.