We were up an running with R on GCE in close to an hour. Looking forward to giving Spark a go soon as well. More compute power on tap creates possibilities.
What is Spark and Why?
Apache Spark is an open source cluster computing system that aims to make data analytics fast — both fast to run and fast to write. To run programs faster, Spark offers a general execution model that can optimize arbitrary operator graphs, and supports in-memory computing, which lets it query data faster than disk-based engines like Hadoop. In the past, I’ve wrote an intro on how to install Spark on GCE and since then, I wanted to do a follow up on the topic but with more real world example of installing a cluster. Luckily to me, a reader of the blog did the work! So after I got his approval, I wanted to share with you his script.
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