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Design a system that sorts numbers spread across multiple computers in files totaling over 200GB, given a server with 500GB disk space and only 8GB of RAM, without loading all data into memory at once.
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Design an External Sorting System for Large Distributed Files
Reported Sep 12, 2026 · 1 source report
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