15-319 - Cloud Computing

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Project Phase I-A: Introduction to Amazon EC2 and Hadoop

Project Phase I-A Due Date: 15 Feb 2012, by 11:59pm

• Project description can be found in Project Phase I-A Handout.
• Instructions on how to setup your Amazon AWS account and retrieve your AWS credits for your project Setting Up an Amazon AWS Account Instructions.
• Apache Whirr instructions to automatically provision and configure a Hadoop cluster on Amazon EC2 Apache Whirr Instructions.

Useful References:

• Amazon AWS
• Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Amazon Instance Pricing Chart
• Amazon EC2 Instance Types
• Systester Benchmark
• Stream Benchmark
• s3cmd Command Line Tool
• Apache Whirr
• Hadoop Commands Guide
• The HDFS Guide
• Oracle's VirtualBox
• VMWare's VMWare Player