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Sanjay Ghemawat
Co-architect of MapReduce, GFS and Bigtable — the infrastructure that made training on web-scale data possible.
Organizations
GoogleDEC Systems Research Center
Major Achievements
- •Co-designed MapReduce (2004) with Jeff Dean, the framework that made large-scale distributed computation routine.
- •Co-created the Google File System and Bigtable, the storage layers beneath it.
- •Contributed to TensorFlow and to core Google infrastructure used by its machine learning systems.
- •Elected to the National Academy of Engineering for this body of work.
Key Papers
- MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat · Communications of the ACM · 2008
- The Google File System
Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, Shun-Tak Leung · SOSP 2003