This is a neat paper from NIPS 2006- and here is a PDF you can download without Scribd (which seems to require a password/login to download): <a href="http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ang//papers/nips06-mapreducemulticore.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/ang//papers/nips06-mapredu...</a>