With respect to virtual hosts, my team uses Vagrant/Virtualbox. We have 3 CentOS VMs with 4 GB RAM each - 2 worker nodes and a master node.
Everything works fine, though if you are using MapR, you have to make sure they are all on the same subnet. -Suren On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Upender Nimbekar <upent...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great News ! I've been awaiting this release to start doing some coding > with Spark using Java 8. Can I run Spark 1.0 examples on a virtual host > with 16 GB ram and fair descent amount of hard disk ? Or do I reaaly need > to use a cluster of machines. > Second, are there any good exmaples of using MLIB on Spark. Please shoot > me in the right direction. > > Thanks > Upender > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm thrilled to announce the availability of Spark 1.0.0! Spark 1.0.0 >> is a milestone release as the first in the 1.0 line of releases, >> providing API stability for Spark's core interfaces. >> >> Spark 1.0.0 is Spark's largest release ever, with contributions from >> 117 developers. I'd like to thank everyone involved in this release - >> it was truly a community effort with fixes, features, and >> optimizations contributed from dozens of organizations. >> >> This release expands Spark's standard libraries, introducing a new SQL >> package (SparkSQL) which lets users integrate SQL queries into >> existing Spark workflows. MLlib, Spark's machine learning library, is >> expanded with sparse vector support and several new algorithms. The >> GraphX and Streaming libraries also introduce new features and >> optimizations. Spark's core engine adds support for secured YARN >> clusters, a unified tool for submitting Spark applications, and >> several performance and stability improvements. Finally, Spark adds >> support for Java 8 lambda syntax and improves coverage of the Java and >> Python API's. >> >> Those features only scratch the surface - check out the release notes >> here: >> http://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-0-0.html >> >> Note that since release artifacts were posted recently, certain >> mirrors may not have working downloads for a few hours. >> >> - Patrick >> > > -- SUREN HIRAMAN, VP TECHNOLOGY Velos Accelerating Machine Learning 440 NINTH AVENUE, 11TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10001 O: (917) 525-2466 ext. 105 F: 646.349.4063 E: suren.hiraman@v <suren.hira...@sociocast.com>elos.io W: www.velos.io