Part of the impulse is the novelty. But also, I am concerned about the price of EC2; how pausing the instances would affect accumulo; or with continuously loading data.
With something like the Fit PC I can leave them running all the time in my office. Of course, simply getting a Linode 512 from http://www.linode.com/ might be better. On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Jim Klucar <[email protected]> wrote: > Doesn't seem like enough RAM or disk to me. I guess it depends on what > you were wanting to process though. Ive had a localhost setup of > Hadoop/ Zookeeper/ Accumulo on my macbook with 4GB of RAM for testing > but its brutal. Is there a reason to not just go with an EC2 setup on > amazon? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 7, 2012, at 11:14 AM, David Medinets <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2-models/ - I wonder if there is any >> reason why Hadoop & Accumulo would not work on this kind of computer. >> Any opinions? Buying a few desktops for my home use will make my >> office too hot to use.
