In a move to garner valuable support from the developer communitywhile honing its own big data chops, EMC-offshoot Greenplum hasunveiled a cloud computing cluster called Analytics Workbench,built on Hadoop, on which developers can freely experiment withtheir code in the cloud. Greenplum's end goal in all this is to see Hadoop widely deployedin the enterprise -- no doubt with the company's own big data analytics tool as part of the mix as it takes on rivals like IBM and Oracle as well as other organizations jumping aboard the Hadoop wagon . The 1,000-node cluster boasts 24PB of physical storage and 48TB ofmemory, and it comes loaded with the entire Hadoop stack, includingthe Hadoop Distributed File System, MapReduce , Pig, Hive, HBase, and Mahout. Also in the mix: GreenplumDatabase, intended to augment the workbench's SQL capabilities.Additionally, Greenplum is serving up open, freely available data-- both structured and unstructured -- from such sources as socialmedia, sensor devices, and call centers.
The cluster is connectedvia 56Gbps InfiniBand interconnect. Greenplum's vision is to let developers test the scalability ofmixed-mode applications in a large-scale cloud-computingenvironment while also giving them a chance to see Greenplum's bigdata analytics software in action. Working with the Apache SoftwareFoundation, the company will share the useful metrics it gleansfrom Analytics Workbench with the open source community. Several vendors have contributed hardware to the AnalyticsWorkbench, including Super Micro, which shelled out 1,000 2UGreenplum Hadoop OEM Servers; Micron, which offered up 6,000 DDR3RDIMM memory sticks; Intel, which contributed 2,000 Westmereprocessors; and Seagate, which added in 12,000 2TB drives. Mellanox, meanwhile, has brought to the table ConnectX-3 VPInetwork cards, SwitchX VPI Switches, FDR cables, and a softwareplug-in called Mellanox UDA (Unstructured Data Accelerator),designed to accelerate Hadoop network and improve the scaling ofHadoop clusters executing data-analytics intensive applications.VMware's Rubicon team is providing Tier-1 and Tier-2 support forthe cluster, monitoring the network, and systems using Zabbixcoupled with homegrown plugins and a dashboard.
In addition to offering Workbench access to big data applicationdevelopers, Greenplum is opening it up to select academicinstitutions, such as Stanford and MIT. Not just anyone can use thecluster, however; organizations must apply and pass a vettingprocess. Alternatively, anyone who passes the company's forthcomingtraining and certification classes in Hadoop will receive access. This story, " Greenplum entices developers with fully loaded Hadoop sandbox ," was originally published at InfoWorld.com.
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