[OSM-talk] Osm.org Routing Demo

[John Smith]

On 4 July 2010 01:46, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since a fair number of home computers pcs these days have quad cores, 6 or
> more gigs of memory and 64 bit operating systems, perhaps it might make
> sense to come up with a Windows stand alone solution and decentralise the
> server computing requirements.

This isn't just a CPU issue, you also have large chunks of data to
deal with, people also expect instantaneous results so farming it out
isn't likely to help on both accounts.

Does anyone know how well this sort of thing could be dealt with by
something like hadoop/mapreduce?