Hi Kevin, Less than $1k/box is unrealistic and won't be your best price/performance.
Most people building new clusters at this point seem to be leaning towards dual quad core Nehalem with 4x1TB 7200RPM SATA and at least 8G RAM. You're better off starting with a small cluster of these nicer machines than 3x as many $1k machines, assuming you can afford at least 4-5 of them. -Todd On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:57 AM, ylx_admin <nek...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'm pretty new to hadoop in general and I've been tasked with building out > a > datacenter cluster of hadoop servers to process logfiles. We currently use > Amazon but our heavy usage is starting to justify running our own servers. > I'm aiming for less than $1k per box, and of course trying to economize on > power/rack. Can anyone give me some advice on what to pay attention to when > building these server nodes? > > TIA, > Kevin > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Advice-on-new-Datacenter-Hadoop-Cluster--tp25667905p25667905.html > Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
