Hi Saikat, I like this idea, esp. as someone who doesn't have ready access to a large cluster. One thing we could consider is putting together a proposal to the Board to buy credits somewhere for committers and active contributors and also to test on.
FWIW, I've also started playing w/ Amazon's EMR JDK and I think it would be interesting to hook it in automatically to the Mahout driver program. -Grant On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Saikat Kanjilal wrote: > > Hi Folks,I saw a thread around freebsd jails being setup a week or so ago, I > was wondering if you guys had thought about setting up a virtualized test > environment so that folks working on patches can test their code on a > virtualized hadoop cluster inside an actual data center. Is there a set of > machines we can leverage for this simulation of "production-level" testing. > It may help to really see how some of these algorithms perform and scale > outside of a local "single-machine" environment. I had brought up doing > something similar to EC2 but just dont know enough about the other Apache > projects to know what everyone else is doing. > > Thoughts?
