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.
By default, Foxrun.pif runs the specified external program in a window. In Visual FoxPro, the FoxPro Run Command window is closed after the external program or command is finished executing. You can use the Windows PIF editor to customize Foxrun.pif.