Re: Playing along at home: recommendations as to system requirements?

Thanks Cody. I reported the core dump as an issue on the Spark JIRA and a developer diagnosed it as an openJDK issue. So I switched over to Oracle Java 8 and... no more core dumps on the examples. I reported the openJDK issue at the icedtea Bugzilla. Looks like I'm off and running with Spark on

Playing along at home: recommendations as to system requirements?

Hi all, Brand new to Spark and to big data technologies in general. Eventually I'd like to contribute to the testing effort on Spark. I have an ARM Chromebook at my disposal: that's it for the moment. I can vouch that it's OK for sending Hive queries to an AWS EMR cluster via SQL Workbench. I

Re: Playing along at home: recommendations as to system requirements?

There are hardware recommendations at http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/hardware-provisioning.html but they're overkill for just testing things out. You should be able to get meaningful work done with 2 m3large for instance. On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Amy Brown testingwithf...@gmail.com