If you want to use an open API and be cloud-provider agnostic, check out Whirr: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/whirr.html.
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Yan, Weizhong (GE, Research) <[email protected]>wrote: > Why don't you just simply try Amazon elastic MapReduce? > http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Renato Marroquín Mogrovejo [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Hadoop Platform > > Hi everyone, > > I read a while ago that maybe IBM or Yahoo! were going to provide a "cloud" > for academic purposes. Does anybody know if those intentions materialised? > or if there any other ( free or not so expensive ) platform to test Hadoop > jobs??? I mean, obviously there would be several limitations on it, but I > don't have access to a cluster and I have some Hadoop jobs I need to test > them, so I can prove to my people the power of it (: > Thanks in advance. > > > Renato M. >
