On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> wrote: >> That's a small cluster running on EC2. > > What instance type?
m1.large > Should use c1.xlarge or m4.4xlarge, they won't see the possibility of noisy > neighbors. I know, but these are expensive. I'm lucky enough Cloudera is being gracious footing the bill for m1.large instances and not requiring me to run spots. > Another thing that can happen, is if you use spot instances your spot > instances can > be taken back by AWS at any time. We had clusters in us-west-1 last week that > were > abruptly terminated without notice like this. (We use on-demand master and > spot slaves, > only the masters remained running... several times last week...) That's not a problem. At least for now it isn't. Thanks, Roman. P.S. I was talking to EC2 AWS folks trying to see whether they would be in a position to donate credits for Apache Projects, but these talks are not progressing well.
