Cloud Computing has brought a huge impact in IT industry. Computing resources are easier to get in Cloud Computing. Briefly speaking, Cloud Computing is a resource pool, which contains a masssive amount of interconnected computers. Under such background, in order to make full use of the network, Google initiated MapReduce model. This model is an implementation of Parallel Computing, which aims at processing large amount of data. Given certain computing resources and MapReduce model, this book gives some thinking about how to estimate the time consumption of a huge computation task. Based on...

This beautifully illustrated multicultural children's book tells a story about China's most famous archealogiclal site--the terracotta soldiers of Xi'an.

When a special exhibition of terracotta warriors comes to town, Ming and his mother goes to see them at the museum. To remember this exciting event, Ming's mother buys him a little figurine of a General to keep in his room at home. But at midnight, Ming wakes up and finds the General figurine is alive and he has a copper carriage ready to take Ming to his home in Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Tomb in Xi'an, China. In this mysterious...