Earning Points. Starwood's Preferred Guest program is fairly straightforward: the more nights you spend at participating hotels, the faster you'll earn a free night.
The mapper output (intermediate data) is stored on the Local file system (NOT HDFS) of each individual mapper nodes. This is typically a temporary directory location which can be setup in config by the hadoop administrator. The intermediate data is cleaned up after the Hadoop Job completes.
1 The .vmx file is typically located in the directory where you created the virtual machine.  In Windows XP and Server 2003, the default location for the file is: C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name\My Documents\Virtual Machines\virtual_machine_name.vmx.