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Over at GridEngine.info they found a link on DanT’s Sun blog that has a sweet tutorial on setting up Hadoop using SGE’s parallel environments with loose integration.
Here we are relying on master node to start othe daemons ( [rs]sh the machine and start daemons) and distribute jobs , and we donot have control on the [...]

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Pig is a query language for use with Hadoop. It allows users to query hadoop data similar to a SQL database. Formally, according to their website:
Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property [...]

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Related to yesterdays post regarding the gas tax holiday, where I stated
Both Clinton and McCain have it wrong, I imagine they contacted their campaign advisors rather than their economic advisors before suggesting its repeal.
Apparently it’s at least in part true. Over here I found

John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who should know better, was [...]

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Why all the hoopla over the gas tax holiday? Both Clinton and McCain have it wrong, I imagine they contacted their campaign advisors rather than their economic advisors before suggesting its repeal. The numbers simply do not work out on the side of the consumer. The way I see it reducing gas prices by $0.184 [...]

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