[Sorry to the core-hadoop members for cross posting] Hi all,
I am not a hardware guy but about to set up a 10 node cluster for some processing of (mostly) tab files, generating various indexes and researching HBase, Mahout, pig, hive etc. Could someone please sanity check that these specs look sensible? [I know 4 drives would be better but price is a factor (second hand not an option, hosting is not either as there is very good bandwidth provided)] Something along the lines of: Dell R200 (8GB is max memory) Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X3360, 2.83GHz, 2x6MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB 8GB Memory, DDR2, 800MHz (4x2GB Dual Ranked DIMMs) 2x 500GB 7.200 rpm 3.5-inch SATA Hard Drive Dell R300 (can be expanded to 24GB RAM) Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X3363, 2.83GHz, 2x6M Cache, 1333MHz FS 8GB Memory, DDR2, 667MHz (2x4GB Dual Ranked DIMMs) 2x 500GB 7.200 rpm 3.5-inch SATA Hard Drive If there is a major flaw please can you let me know. Thanks, Tim (not a hardware guy ;o)
