when i said"people daily used on windows",I want to specify the commom handware (not OS)but don't mean hadoop run on windows! I mean that hadoop run on common pc's hardware .certainly linux as OS !
Tim Wintle wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 13:43 +0800, 柳松 wrote: >> Hadoop is designed for High performance computing equipment, but >> "claimed" to be fit for "daily pc"s. > > The phrase "High Performance Computing equipment" makes me think of > infiniband, fibre all over the place etc. > > > Hadoop doesn't need that, it runs well on standard pc hardware - i.e. no > special hardware you couldn't find in a standard pc. That doesn't mean > you should run it on pcs that are being used for other things though. > > I found that hadoop ran ok on fairly old hardware - a load of old > power-pc macs (running linux) churned through some jobs quickly, and > I've actually run it on people's office machines during the nights (not > on Windows). I did end up having to add an extra switch in for the part > of the network that was only 100 mbps to get the throughput though. > > Of course ideally you would be running it on a rack of 1u servers, but > that's still normally standard pc hardware. > > > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/the-question-about-the-common-pc--tp22092022p22094601.html Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
