Re: hardware specs for hadoop nodes

[Ted Dunning]

On 9/25/07 9:27 AM, "Bob Futrelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> How does Hadoop handle multi-core CPUs?  Does each core run a distinct copy
> of the mapped app?  Is this automatic, or need some configuration, or what?

Works fine.  You need to tell it how many maps to run per machine.  I expect
that this can be tuned per machine.

> Or should I just spread Hadoop over some friendly machines already in my
> College, buying nothing?

Or both?  You will get interesting results all three ways.