Mahout/Hadoop on Amazon EC2 – part 1 – Installation
The first of 6 posts where Danny Bickson walks through use of Mahout/Hadoop on Amazon EC2.
Other posts in the series:
Mahout on Amazon EC2 – part 2 – Running Hadoop on a single node
Mahout on Amazon EC2 – part 3 – Debugging
Hadoop on Amazon EC2 – Part 4 – Running on a cluster
Tunning Hadoop configuration for high performance – Mahut on Amazon EC2
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