Hello, I have found that you generally need two separate pools of knowledge to be successful in this game :). One is to have enough knowledge of network topologies, systems, java, scala and whatever else to actually set up the whole system (esp. if your requirements are different than running on a local machine or in the ec2 cluster supported by the scripts that come with spark).
The other is actual knowledge of the API and how it works and how to express and solve your problems using the primitives offered by spark. There is also a third: since you can supply any function to a spark primitive, you generally need to know scala or java (or python?) to actually solve your problem. I am not sure this list is viewed as appropriate place to offer advice on how to actually solve these problems. Not that I would mind seeing various solutions to various problems :) and also optimizations. For example, I am trying to do rudimentary retention analysis. I am a total beginner in the whole map/reduce way of solving problems. I have come up with a solution that is pretty slow but implemented in 5 or 6 lines of code for the simplest problem. However, my files are 20 GB in size each, all json strings. Figuring out what the limiting factor is (network bandwidth is my suspicion since I am accessing things via S3 is my guess) is somewhat of a black magic to me at this point. I think for most of this stuff you will have to read the code. The bigger question after that is optimizing your solutions to be faster :). I would love to see practical tutorials on doing such things and I am willing to put my attempts at solving problems out there to eventually get cannibalized, ridiculed and reimplemented properly :). Sorry for this long winded email, it did not really answer your question anyway :) Ognen On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Kal El <[email protected]> wrote: > I have created a cluster setup with 2 workers (one of them is also the > master) > > Can anyone help me with a tutorial on how to run K-Means for example on > this cluster (it would be better to run it from outside the cluster command > line)? > > I am mostly interested on how do I initiate the sparkcontext (what jars do > I need to add ? : > new SparkContext(master, appName, [sparkHome], [jars])) and what other > steps I need to run. > > I am using the standalone spark cluster. > > Thanks > > >
