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Ask HN: If a Hadoop cluster were free, what would you do?
- sbenfsck 13y agoI have a Tera-butte-ton of security data that I could use hadoop for analysis. Have you a free cluster?
- tonydiv 13y agoWe've developed a parallel architecture using GPUs thereby reducing the cost by a few hundred factors. So, yes, we will have a freemium plan, and an affordable pricing model. Email me at tony@parallelx.com if you're interested.
- sk2code 13y agoI've recently became interested in Hadoop, map/reduce, HDFS. I would like to use it for learning purpose.
- tonydiv 13y agoWhat types of jobs are you trying to implement?
- staunch 13y agoHow many cores, how much RAM, how much HDFS storage?
- tonydiv 13y agoOur free tier will be: 26 CPU cores, 15 GB RAM, 60GB of SSD storage 1536 GPU cores, and 2GB RAM for a certain amount of time. If you'd like a reserve instance, or more power/storage/throughput, we'll charge more accordingly.
- staunch 13y agoMost typical usage of Hadoop I've seen (so far) is people dumping many terabytes of data into HDFS and then analyzing it. But maybe you're more focused on distributed computing than the "big data" side of it.
- manidoraisamy 13y agoI might use it to analyze email conversations related to customer service.
- tonydiv 13y agoWhat types of algorithms would you implement? Would they be compute bound?
- lrosiak 13y agoI'd use it for running optical character recognition on millions of pages of government documents to make public information truly free, at http://citizenaudit.org/ http://citizenaudit.org/. But I really just need the 26 cores with a master node feeding documents for that, not actually map-reduce.
- tonydiv 13y agoHmm, if there's no MR involved, I'm not sure our GPUs would be very helpful for this type of job. What do you think?