This coursera course was taken down, but it is now up and running at lagunita.stanford.edu [0], which uses edx's open source platform [1]. The same happened to other stanford courses previously on coursera, you can find them here [2], including Compilers, Automata Theory, and Convex Optimization.

[0] https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/course-v1:ComputerScie...

[1] https://open.edx.org/ https://github.com/edx/edx-platform

[2] https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses

What amazed me is how much of this is 1990s stuff.

massive is an understatement. I have only dealt with puny GB sized data sets. They deal with vectors which cannot fit into main memory.

Deadlines are at the 29th of November. Best of luck

tldr; parallel map reduce. ;)