I love big companies
Posted by Ian Holsman
here’s a hint for anyone who works in a megacorp and wants to play with hadoop.
go to your OPS or accounting department and ask for a list of machines which have been fully depreciated and are not being used/process of getting recycled.
whoosh..instant hadoop cluster..
now before you think pentium II with 640M ram… 3 years ago we are talking 2.8ghz dual cores with 4/8 ram… which is plenty fast enough when you are getting them for nothing.