> Well, Bigtop was conceived as THE place for integrating > and validating Apache Hadoop ecosystem projects. I'm > sure individual projects will benefit from having EC2 credits > on a per-project basis. That said, if we want the kind of testing > I did for HBase 0.92RC/Hadoop 0.22RC happen on regular > basis for a way bigger matrix of compatibility -- we need > those credits for Bigtop. Think of it as umbrella.
One would think some small fraction of the combined $60MM infused into the community-oriented Hadoop companies recently would buy quite a few EC2 instance-minutes for BigTop specifically. Also, didn't someone set up a 1000 node cluster for public use recently? - Andy ----- Original Message ----- > From: Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 12:12 PM > Subject: Re: HBase 0.92/Hadoop 0.22 test results > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: >> I talked to EC2 AWS folks at HW too (They are getting it from both >> ends of the country!). This is supposedly a possibility for apache >> hbase. > > That's exactly what they told me -- a possibility for a "few" > Apache > projects. I'm yet to have a single bit of practical > >> You want a grant for bigtop though, right Roman? > > Well, Bigtop was conceived as THE place for integrating > and validating Apache Hadoop ecosystem projects. I'm > sure individual projects will benefit from having EC2 credits > on a per-project basis. That said, if we want the kind of testing > I did for HBase 0.92RC/Hadoop 0.22RC happen on regular > basis for a way bigger matrix of compatibility -- we need > those credits for Bigtop. Think of it as umbrella. > > I'm still at ApacheCON (its been a long week). We've been > having conversations with EMC/Greenplum about them > donating CPU time on their real H/W cluster to Bigtop. The > idea here is that we'd be using it for testing trunks of different > Hadoop projects against each other, etc. > >> You've tried writing them a pretty-please? > > Yup. > > Thanks, > Roman. >
