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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:18:15 -0600
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Subject: Re: Time to build my own cluster - advice?
From: Mark Kerzner <markkerzner@gmail.com>
To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org
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Tim,

I have been using individual EC2, and my question really was about building
your own Hadoop cluster on that, but the others have provided the links. I
guess you are saying that I should just go ahead and do it; it's not that
hard. In other words, kick that Elastic MapReduce habit :)

Thank you,
Mark

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Tim Robertson <timrobertson100@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> The amazon EC2 docs are really pretty good - It is really easy to
> manage your own AMIs.
> Just follow the tutorial and you'll have no issues.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Mark Kerzner <markkerzner@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > so far I've been using Amazon MapReduce. However, my app uses a growing
> > number of Linux packages. I have been installing them on the fly, in the
> > Mapper.configure(), but with OpenOffice this is hard, and I don't get a
> > service connection even after local install.
> >
> > Therefore, my question is on the advice in creating my own Hadoop cluster
> > out of EC2 machines. Are there instructions? How hard is it? What are
> best
> > practices?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Mark
> >
>

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