I am pleased to announce that I have been voted in as a committer on Apache Whirr! Whirr is a Java library for quickly setting up services in the cloud. For example, using Whirr you can start a Hadoop cluster on Amazon in 5 minutes by configuring a simple property file and running the whirr […]
Apache Whirr includes Mahout support
In a previous blog I showed you how to use Apache Whirr to launch a Hadoop cluster in order to run Mahout jobs. This blog shows you how to use the Mahout service from the brand new Whirr 0.7.0 release to automatically install Hadoop and the Mahout binary distribution on a cloud provider such as […]
Running Mahout in the Cloud using Apache Whirr
This blog shows you how to run Mahout in the cloud, using Apache Whirr. Apache Whirr is a promosing Apache incubator project for quickly launching cloud instances, from Hadoop to Cassandra, Hbase, Zookeeper and so on. I will show you how to setup a Hadoop cluster and run Mahout jobs both via the command line […]