This is really an interesting setting :) I want to know the answer too! Xiance
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:45 AM, James Carroll <[email protected] > wrote: > I work in a call center which means we have a lot of PCs sitting on > agents' desks doing a whole lot nothing in the middle of the night. It > also means that we collect a lot of phone and other data, etc that all > gets rolled out into reports and/or tables that drive reports or other > processes. We're pushing the limits on what our current data processing > can do and I'd like to pitch Hadoop/HDFS/PIG to my boss. So bottomline, > before I go too much further: can we create a Hadoop cluster across all > those desktop PCs, start/wake it up once every one has gone home, load > the data, do the analysis, and then creep back into the shadows before > anyone is the wiser? Or would the slave nodes have to be 'dedicated' > such that they wouldn't be able to do anything other that. We'll figure > out the capacity aspects later if I can get a Proof of Concept approved > to at least try. The PCs are, you guessed it, Windows machines. > > Thanks! > >
