Assignment 3
ITCS-4010/5010: Cloud Computing for Data Analysis, Spring 2009

Assignment 3:

• The due date for Assignment 3 is 11:59:59pm on Tuesday, March 24 .

• Assignment 3 description: assign3.pdf .

• Sample data file: wiki-micro.txt.gz

• Instructions for 335 cluster

• Assignment 3 submission: Please submit using Blackboard. You should zip your your source code and README files so we can run your code.

  Note: The assignment is due by Tuesday, March 24, 11:59:59pm. You can submit your assignment multiple times. However only the most recent submission will be graded. The timestamp on your most recent submission will also be used to compute late days used.

• Hadoop
• Hadoop Wiki

Resources for getting Hadoop running on your computer:

• We recommend you use Hadoop 0.19.0, JDK 1.6.x, Eclipse 3.3 (or higher).
• Follow one of the following tutorials, based on your computing environment:
  1. Yahoo Hadoop tutorial: If you want to use virtual machine image running Ubuntu Linux
  2. Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Linux_(Single-Node_Cluster)
  3. Hadoop Quick Start (for single node installation), and Hadoop on Windows XP (single-node cluster, using cygwin)
• Hadoop MapReduce tutorial: Has explanatory details of the Hadoop framework

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