Hadoop does need someone to administer it. You can be doing other stuff and doing a half time to take care of the cluster. That's how I do it at my job. However your cluster is bigger and will be doing more stuff than the one I work on. So, that might change the equation a bit.
On 10/9/09, Nick Rathke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Hadoop Users, > > Now that we have our cluster up and running ( mostly ) the question has > come up about much time will be required to run the system. > > We have Hadoop running on 64 nodes, 40TB of storage with only 6 or 7 > Hadoop users right now. The number of users is likely to grow as more of > our researchers begin to use the system but will likely not be more the > 20 users. > > I am trying to get a sense of how much of an FTE ( Full Time Employee ) > I should plan on for managing the system. We also run MPI and CUDA on > the cluster and from a system administrator point of view these are > fairly low overhead, but I have no concept yet of what the time > commitment to Hadoop will be. > > Thanks, > > Nick Rathke > Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute > Sr. Systems Administrator > [email protected] > www.sci.utah.edu > 801-587-9933 > 801-557-3832 > > "I came I saw I made it possible" Royal Bliss - Here They Come > -- Amandeep Khurana Computer Science Graduate Student University of California, Santa Cruz
