In the exhibit, a Funnel stage has two input links. Input 1 (Seq_File) comes from a Sequential File
stage with “Readers per Node” set to “2”. Input 2 (Dataset) comes from a dataset created with 3
partitions. In the Funnel stage, the funnel type is set to “Sequence”.

The parallel configuration file contains 4 nodes. How many instances of the Funnel stage run in
parallel?

A.
1

B.
2

C.
4

D.
6

Explanation: