Excited about my new dev computer!

I just can't resist posting the specs.

Background: my hard drive probably burned, and anyway more computing power is better.

Another pic: choosing the computer at Microcenter.

Houston Hadoop hackathon becomes an on-going project

We have all collected at HTC, you can read about it here. We gave the project a name, caldoop, after one member of our group whose name was Cal. Here is it on GitHub.

Then we have spelled out our approach, which can be found on the project wiki.

At this first meeting, we were setting the environment, the git, mvn, github pull and push.

However, I think that we should make this an on-going project, and that we can still meet occasionally, but work mostly remotely.

We also need a white board or a discussion group. Any suggestions? I can set up a Google discussion group, or a mailing list, or something.

Thank you, all, and let's make this project a continuous success.

Cheers,
Mark

First Houston Hadoop hackathon and more...

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft lately:

1. Hadoop Hackathon in Houston this Wednesday, see here http://www.meetup.com/Houston-Hadoop-Meetup-Group/events/102954462/ for details - simulating a smart power utility;
2. Starting a number of initiative in using SHMcloud for back-end eDiscovery processing, stay tuned;
3. Putting the Hadoop Namenode on a Kove memory device - project started with our partner Kove, hosted in Chicago.

Thank you and best regards from the SHMsoft team.

04.29.2013

SHMsoft News - First full Hadoop training for developers delivered

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft lately:

1. Congratulation to Sujee Maniyam, for successfully delivering “Hadoop training for developers,” a four-day hands on course, at an important company in San Francisco.
2. SHMcloud eDiscovery:  we are now offering processing service, with the export into a review tool of your choice, such as Concordance.
3. Dell has given us a cluster of excellent servers for a 90-day evaluation - for our development of eDiscovery. The machines are hosted in Champaign, IL. Let the fun begin! - Thank you, Dell!

Thank you and best regards from the SHMsoft team.

04.15.2013

Houston Hadoop Meetup - How do I get the data in?

Steve Byrnes gave an excellent presentation on "Hadoop for DevOps, including OpenTSDB, Flume, and Scribe."

He also uploaded the slides and the materials using some fancy tools. In his own words,

"Hi, I've finally gotten the presentation pushed out to Github. See http://erewhon.github.io/hadoop-devops-prezi/ for the HTML w/presentation notes. The source for the presentation and the examples are at https://github.com/erewhon/hadoop-devops-prezi  (Some of those examples might have a hard coded user or host in them, so probably shouldn't be run as is.)

Thanks, Steve!

March 2013

Houston Hadoop Meetup - 'Hadoop for Execs'

It was a bit of a try-out, for everything: Hadoop illuminated LLC as a host, new office on One Riverway for meetups and training, and 'Hadoop for Execs' presentation.

And it all went great: the audience, the accommodations, the materials (mostly composed by Sujee Maniyam), and surely the questions and answers.

It is clear: Houston is thirsting for Hadoop knowledge, and we are going to help: we will host monthly 'Hadoop for Execs' seminars. We only need to decide on the format: should we make it a one-hour whirlwind tour, two-hours overview, or a half-day actual training. Tough question, but nice to have.

Cooperating with Dell

I like flying for lunch to Austin, and here I had just such an opportunity, to meet with the great people at Dell. We have found whole five ways in which we can cooperate! Awesome, nice.