I felt the model used for simulations in the paper was a bit questionable -- seems to me the emphasis should be on newer data being accessed by many jobs simultaneously, most often by smaller jobs -- but the specifics of the solution probably are of less interest than the paper's general discussion of scheduling issues that come up as a large Hadoop cluster is put under load from many users.
Please see also my earlier post, "Hadoop summit notes", especially the problems with scheduling using Hadoop on Demand (which makes a cluster look like multiple virtual clusters) and the idea of sharing intermediate results (such as sorted extracts) from previous jobs on the cluster.



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