Comments on: EMC throws lots of hardware at Hadoop http://gigaom.com/2011/09/20/emc-throws-lots-of-hardware-at-hadoop/ Sat, 18 May 2013 17:41:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Derrick Harris http://gigaom.com/2011/09/20/emc-throws-lots-of-hardware-at-hadoop/#comment-657068 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:52:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=408861#comment-657068 Those are internal deployments, any new code from which generally is contributed back to Apache. EMC is giving Apache itself a cluster on which to test the trunk Hadoop code that’s available for public download.

]]> By: Praveen http://gigaom.com/2011/09/20/emc-throws-lots-of-hardware-at-hadoop/#comment-657052 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:07:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=408861#comment-657052 >>Apache team tasked with building new Hadoop releases hasn’t had easy access to infrastructure that lets them test the code at scale, but now it has 1,000 nodes, which is still a respectably sized Hadoop cluster.

How different this is from ~4K nodes Yahoo is using with Hadoop and X number of nodes used by Facebook.

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