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Date: Tue,  3 Mar 2009 17:28:38 +0100
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From: hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com>
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2009/3/3, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>:
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> lots of questions first .
>
>  how  many cluster nodes. how long do the jobs run. input files or
>  args? output files? how big? You can't say much with the information
>  you gave.

It is a small cluster, of 6 machines. I think each job runs for a few
minutes (~5), take some input files and generate a couple of files (I
am not really sure about how many output files each proccess
generates). The size of the output files is ~1Mb.

--
Hugo