Thanks Enis & steve, for your valuable guidelines. As i can understand since hadoop is a implementation of map-reduce it is aimed at working in a clustering environment. So me, having only a Desktop and Internet connection having doubts weather i can successfully contribute to the project.
In local mode mapred jobs run in LocalJobRunner and the tasks run > sequentially. In pseudo-distributed mode, you run NN,JT,DN and TTs in the > same machine so the jobs run as they are in the distributed mode. Most of > the mapred test cases run with this configuration. although this sounds good. there are clouds like Amazon EC2 for setting up a cluster.Are you devs make use of that sort of infrastructure in development testing.I dont knw this is a right question or this is relevent at all. plz bare with me if. Have you worked on Apache projects before? yes i have contributed to the Apache Axis2 project.so Im pretty much familiar with java,ant,maven,junit , etc.
