Thanks for pointing that out Edward, I'll take a look at the most recent documentation on HOD.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Edward Capriolo <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, > > Most components of hadoop now have a document branch per release, that > documentation is inline and is generated by forest. Anything that you > find not on the wiki, with a version number, should have a more up to > date page. > > For example: > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/ > > Drop down 'Documentation' > Release 0.18.3 > Release 0.19.2 > Release 0.20.1 > > Usually you will find a fresher documentation page: > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.1/hod_user_guide.html > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Jim Twensky <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to get Hadoop running on a large University cluster which is >> used by many people to run different types of applications. We are >> currently using Torque to assign nodes and manage the queue. What I >> want to do is to enable people to request "n" processors, and >> automatically start Hadoop on those "n" nodes where one of the nodes >> becomes the name node and the rest become the workers. Once the job >> completes, the name node should shut down the cluster and terminate >> all instances of Hadoop processes. >> >> I came across HOD (Hadoop On Demand), which seems to fit into my >> needs. However, the most up to date documentation I could find was for >> Hadoop 0.17.1 at: >> >> http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.17.1/hod.html >> >> I'm wondering: >> >> 1- If I'm on the right track, ie. Can I use Hadoop for my needs or is >> there any better alternative? We can't setup a dedicated Hadoop >> cluster as there are other applications that need to be running on the >> same cluster nodes. >> >> 2- If there is a more recent version of HOD that is able to work with >> Hadoop 0.20.1 . >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Jim >> >
