Re: Research projects for hadoop

2011-09-09 Thread Andrew Purtell
> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 10:45 AM > Subject: RE: Research projects for hadoop > > Why would you want to take a perfectly good machine and then try to > virtualize > it? > I mean if I have 4 quad core cpus, I can run a lot of simultaneous map tasks. > However if I virt

RE: Research projects for hadoop

2011-09-09 Thread Saikat Kanjilal
.apache.org; mapreduce-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 12:45:38 -0500 > Subject: RE: Research projects for hadoop > > Why would you want to take a perfectly good machine and then try to > virtualize it? > I mean if I have 4 quad core cpus, I can run a lot of simultaneo

RE: Research projects for hadoop

2011-09-09 Thread Segel, Mike
than I would have under my original box -Original Message- From: Saikat Kanjilal [mailto:sxk1...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 10:59 AM To: common-...@hadoop.apache.org; mapreduce-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Research projects for hadoop Hi Folks,I was looking

Re: Research projects for hadoop

2011-09-09 Thread Arun C Murthy
out using virtual box and centos 64 bit to serve as a linux container > for isolating map/reduce processes? I have setup this up in the past, its > really easy. > > >> From: ev...@yahoo-inc.com >> To: mapreduce-dev@hadoop.apache.org >> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 10:30:37

RE: Research projects for hadoop

2011-09-09 Thread Saikat Kanjilal
Re: Research projects for hadoop > > The biggest issue with Xen and other virtualization technologies is that > often there is an IO penalty involved with using them. For many jobs this is > not an acceptable trade off. I do know, however, that there has been some > discussion a

Re: Research projects for hadoop

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Evans
The biggest issue with Xen and other virtualization technologies is that often there is an IO penalty involved with using them. For many jobs this is not an acceptable trade off. I do know, however, that there has been some discussion about using Linux Containers for isolation of Map/Reduce pr

Research projects for hadoop

2011-09-09 Thread Saikat Kanjilal
Hi Folks,I was looking through the following wiki page: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopResearchProjects and was wondering if there's been any work done (or any interest to do work) for the following topics: Integration of Virtualization (such as Xen) with Hadoop toolsHow does one integr