How to setup a Hadoop cluster in one hour using Ambari?
A guide to setting up a 3-node Hadoop cluster using Oracle’s VirtualBox and Apache Ambari.
HPC may not be the key to semantics but it can still be useful. 
Archive for the ‘Virtual Machines’ Category
Getting Started with VM Depot
Friday, January 11th, 2013Getting Started with VM Depot by Doug Mahugh.
From the post:
Do you need to deploy a popular OSS package on a Windows Azure virtual machine, but don’t know where to start? Or do you have a favorite OSS configuration that you’d like to make available for others to deploy easily? If so, the new VM Depot community portal from Microsoft Open Technologies is just what you need. VM Depot is a community-driven catalog of preconfigured operating systems, applications, and development stacks that can easily be deployed on Windows Azure.
You can learn more about VM Depot in the announcement from Gianugo Rabellino over on Port 25 today. In this post, we’re going to cover the basics of how to use VM Depot, so that you can get started right away.
Doug outlines simple steps to get you rolling with the VM Depot.
Sounds a lot easier than trying to walk casual computer users through installation and configuration of software. I assume you could even load data onto the VMs.
Users just need to fire up the VM and they have the interface and data they want.
Sounds like a nice way to distribute topic map based information systems.
Virtual Machines
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011From the post:
One of the best resources about virtual machines (both high-level language VMs and system VMs) is Jim Smith’s and Ravi Nair’s book Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes.
What functions would you optimize if you were writing a virtual machine?