Re: Content request for 0.20.205 Sustaining Release

2011-09-02 Thread Matei Zaharia
Hi Matt, I'd like to propose backporting some of the new fair scheduler features that have been out for almost 2 years now (in the 0.21 branch and trunk) into 0.20.205, especially https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-551 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-706. I

Re: [VOTE] Powered by Logo

2011-06-15 Thread Matei Zaharia
5, 3, 2, 4, 6, 1 On Jun 15, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Chris Douglas wrote: My vote: 2, 4, 5 -C On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Owen O'Malley omal...@apache.org wrote: All, We've had a wide range of entries for a powered by logo. I've put them all on a page, here:

Re: [VOTE] Release candidate 0.20.203.0-rc1

2011-05-05 Thread Matei Zaharia
I'm not going to cast a vote, but I'm concerned about this for the same reasons Eli brought up -- in particular, compatibility with 0.22. I'm an author of several patches that have gone into 0.21 and trunk, only to stay on hiatus for 2 years because the project hasn't made a stable release

Re: General doubts about Google App Engine

2009-11-03 Thread Matei Zaharia
Hi Harshad, Is there any reason you're using App Engine instead of EC2? App Engine is designed for web sites, so in general, I think you'd have to do a lot of work to make it run MapReduce, and it wouldn't be particularly good at it. On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:49 PM,

Re: try hadoop on amazon

2009-10-28 Thread Matei Zaharia
If you just want to develop and test Hadoop applications, you can run Hadoop on your own machine by following the Quick Start instructions linked at http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/. If you want to run on a cluster, Amazon is very cheap for small computations (several dollars