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StarCluster, Cloudera Manager, EC2 Part 2

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This is a continuation of my previous post on this topic. First, a disclaimer – I have focused on CentOS primarily. I will try and update this to accommodate more than one Linux distro (and even consider writing for Solaris-based implementations in the future). Here’s the skeleton of the cloudera manager setup plugin: import posixpath …

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Cloudera Hadoop, StarCluster and Amazon EC2

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I ran into an incredible tool known as StarCluster, which is an open-source project from MIT (http://star.mit.edu/cluster/). StarCluster is built using Sun Microsystem’s N1 Grid Engine software (Sun used it to do deployment for HPC environments). And the folks at MIT developed on a fork of that (SGE – Sun Grid Engine) and StarCluster was …

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