Brian Bockelman <bbock...@cse.unl.edu> writes: > Despite my trying, I've never been able to come even close to pegging > the CPUs on our NN. > > I'd recommend going for the fastest dual-cores which are affordable -- > latency is king.
Clue? Surely the latencies in Hadoop that dominate are not cured with faster processors, but with more RAM and faster disks? I've followed your posts for a while, so I know you are very experienced with this stuff... help me out here. Ian
