Also, if you plan to run HBase as well (now or in the future), you'll need more RAM. Take that into account too.
Amandeep Khurana Computer Science Graduate Student University of California, Santa Cruz On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > >
