Re: specifying number of nodes for job

2008-09-10 Thread Sandy
Thank you very much for you response :) -Suzanne On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Owen O'Malley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In all seriousness though, why is this not possible? Is there something > > about the MapReduce model

Re: specifying number of nodes for job

2008-09-09 Thread Owen O'Malley
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In all seriousness though, why is this not possible? Is there something > about the MapReduce model of parallel computation that I am not > understanding? Or this more of an arbitrary implementation choice made by > the Hadoop fram

Re: specifying number of nodes for job

2008-09-08 Thread Sandy
-smiles- It's not nice to poke fun at people's e-mail aliases... and snickerdoodles are delicious cookies. In all seriousness though, why is this not possible? Is there something about the MapReduce model of parallel computation that I am not understanding? Or this more of an arbitrary implementat

Re: specifying number of nodes for job

2008-09-08 Thread hmarti2
yeah. snickerdoodle. really. > I see.. so if I have a cluster with n nodes, there is no way for me to > have > it spawn on just 2 of those nodes, or just one of those nodes? And > furthermore, there is no way for me to have it spawn on just a subset of > the > processors? Or am I misunderstanding

Re: specifying number of nodes for job

2008-09-08 Thread Sandy
I see.. so if I have a cluster with n nodes, there is no way for me to have it spawn on just 2 of those nodes, or just one of those nodes? And furthermore, there is no way for me to have it spawn on just a subset of the processors? Or am I misunderstanding? Also, when you say "specify the number o

Re: specifying number of nodes for job

2008-09-07 Thread Mafish Liu
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This may be a silly question, but I'm strangely having trouble finding an > answer for it (perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places?). > > Suppose I have a cluster with n nodes each with m processors. > > I wish to test the