The document explains the MapReduce programming model developed by Dr. G. Sudha Sadasivam, which is designed for distributed processing of large data sets in a fault-tolerant manner. It describes the workflow of the model, including the map and reduce functions, job assignment, task execution, and debugging methods, as well as providing a practical example of a word count operation. Hadoop MapReduce is emphasized as a framework that efficiently handles vast amounts of data using a simple programming metaphor.