What it looks like to process 3.5 million books in Google’s cloud
googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-it-looks-like-to-process-3.5-million-books-in-Googles-cloud.html
From the page
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This is where Google’s cloud offerings shine, seemingly purpose-built for data-first computing. In just two weeks, I was able to process 3.5 million books, spinning up a cluster of 160 cores and 1TB of RAM, followed by a single machine with 32 cores, 200GB of RAM, 10TB of SSD disk and 1TB of direct-attached scratch SSD disk. I was able to make the final results publicly accessible through BigQuery at query speeds of over 45.5GB/s.