Publications on Map-Reduce and Data-intensive computing:
[1] Dean, Jeff and Ghemawat, Sanjay. MapReduce: Simplified Data
Processing on Large Clusters http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf
[2] Lammal, Ralf. Google's MapReduce Programming Model Revisited.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ralf/MapReduce/paper.pdf
[3] Open Source MapReduce: http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/