Thursday, December 31, 2009

Sort a huge file

You are given a huge file with say 100 terabytes of integers. They don't fit in internal memory, what strategy would you use?
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  1. 1. Split the data into pieces that fit into main memory
    2. Sort the pieces with conventional sorting algorithms
    3. Merge those so called runs and build the completely sorted data-set

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