Our production Hadoop Cluster is based on Cloudera's CD3U6 repository. Here are some details :

• namenode (that is login node): whitetail.wesleyan.edu
  • whitetail also runs the Hadoop Scheduler and Health Monitor
    • Health Status
    • Job Tracker
  • ssh to it directly or from any of our other tails
• resources: access to 600 GB of memory and 1.75 TB of Hadoop's Distributed File System (HDFS)
  • could be doubled in near future if needed

• HDFS is not backed up!
  • You must request a writable work area /userdata/username
  • Be sure to down load your results to /home/username (that is the regular filesystem)

• Data to be shared (dictionaries, anagrams, etc) can be posted in /shareddata
  • request such items to be posted there

• Basic tools (request other tools to be installed)
  • shell scripting
  • python
  • perl (Hadoop::Streaming)
  • java (both Oracle in /usr/java and openJDK)
  • R+RHadoop (rmr2, rhdfs, rhbase)
  • Hbase (noSQL database)
    • Master & Zookeepers
    • Thrift server
  • MySQL
    • request a database to be set up for you (limited space)

• Note: the permissions are bit weird in HDFS but I think it is sorted out.
  • If this turns into a problem we'll let everybody run as user hdfs …
• Note: some http links will not work because they point to the private network
  • If you wish to view them launch firefox from whitetail …

Other useful pages

• Build Hadoop Cluster
• Use Hadoop Cluster

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