Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-mapreduce-user-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-mapreduce-user-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7608917FE8 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:51:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19117 invoked by uid 500); 12 Feb 2015 16:51:07 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-mapreduce-user-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 19018 invoked by uid 500); 12 Feb 2015 16:51:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 19008 invoked by uid 99); 12 Feb 2015 16:51:07 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:51:07 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.2 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [194.150.112.204] (HELO mail04.dandomain.dk) (194.150.112.204) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:50:40 +0000 Received: from bentzn.com [93.108.251.131] ([127.0.0.1]) by mail04.dandomain.dk (DanDomain Mailserver) with ASMTP id 4201502121750388782 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:50:38 +0100 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:50:38 +0000 To: user@hadoop.apache.org From: th@bentzn.com Subject: Re: commodity hardware Message-ID: <1947bc8b55af97d7b3475abd249cb027@bentzn.com> X-Mailer: IceWarp Mailer 11.1.2.0-Desktop References: <1230135568.3402592.1423690561779.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>

<8AD4EE147886274A8B495D6AF407DF698122B8F8@szxeml510-mbx.china.huawei.com> X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="b1_1947bc8b55af97d7b3475abd249cb027" X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Old-Spam-Flag: NO --b1_1947bc8b55af97d7b3475abd249cb027 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If you can buy it in a shop from a shelf somewhere it's 'commodity' :) /th -----Original Besked----- Fra: "Adaryl Wakefield" Til: user@hadoop.apache.org Dato: 12-02-2015 16:45 Emne: commodity hardware Does anybody have a good definition of commodity hardware? I'm having a har= d time explaining it to people. I have no idea when a piece of HW is "commo= dity" or whatever the opposite of commodity is. =A0 B. --b1_1947bc8b55af97d7b3475abd249cb027 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

If you can buy it in a shop from a= shelf somewhere it's 'commodity' :)

/th

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Fra: "Adaryl Wakefield" <adaryl.wakefield@hotmail.com>
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Dato: 12-02-2015 16:45
Emne: commodity hardware

Does anybody have a good definition of commodity hardware? I'm = having a hard time explaining it to people. I have no idea when a piece of = HW is "commodity" or whatever the opposite of commodity is.

B.=

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